What are Kevin Durant's motivations? What are Kevin Durant's future plans? What does Kevin Durant think about himself and the way he is perceived? What did Kevin Durant have for breakfast on Tuesday at 8:37 a.m.? Bob Myers knows that the first three questions have been asked about Durant all season long… and that if the fourth question was asked in a future press conference, the general manager of the Golden State Warriors wouldn't be too surprised.
Myers addressed the media frenzy surrounding Durant in an extended conversation with a San Francisco Bay Area sports radio station. Whether he is being hyperbolic is up to you to decide.
“Kevin Durant is probably under a bigger microscope than maybe any athlete we’ve ever seen,” Myers said in an interview with 95.7 The Game in San Francisco.
“I suppose there’s some other ones, but, how his year’s been covered, I can’t relate to what that feels like. I don’t know, maybe, if I was in his situation, I would get frustrated, at times, with the media, I suppose. I don’t know what I’d be like.”
Speculation runs rampant in the soap-operatic world of NBA Twitter and the NBA community at large. The offseason dramas surrounding free agency and the uncertainty preceding the NBA trade deadline have generated more pure shock value in recent years than the NBA postseason and NBA Finals. In this context, Durant receives more scrutiny for how he thinks than for what he does in the month of June. It is simply the world we live in.
As a sidebar to this story on Durant, you will note that Bob Myers — in the linked radio interview above — also dropped some observations on Andrew Bogut, who is returning to the Warriors this month. Bogut was reacquired by the Warriors in an attempt to reinforce their interior defense against the Houston Rockets and Oklahoma City Thunder, should the Warriors face one or both clubs in the NBA playoffs.
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