Only a season after dealing with Draymond Green's offseason scandals at nightclubs and over social media, the Golden State Warriors are back where they were a year ago with another star in the middle of controversy, only one banner richer this time.
The organization is reportedly “perplexed” by Kevin Durant's actions coming off a Finals MVP performance and his first NBA title, having engaged in back-and-forths with his critics over Instagram and Twitter. In addition to it, Durant also has been willingly chatty and even dug himself a hole by having negative comments about competing sneaker brand Under Armour, despite it being worn and represented by his own teammate, Stephen Curry.
According to The Vertical's Chris Mannix, the team is hopeful that the drama will eventually evaporate with only days before training camp, but are still bamboozled over the unnecessary attention he's brought to himself after dealing with a wave of criticism throughout an entire season after choosing to join the team.
“The Warriors will open training camp Friday and maybe then things will get back to normal. The sneaker tiff with Curry seems to have blown over, and by addressing the Thunder tweets he saves himself from having to later. But make no mistake: Many in Golden State, team officials and players alike, have taken note of Durant’s oddball offseason and are perplexed by it. They see a bright future for Durant in Oakland, league and team sources told The Vertical, and are bewildered as to why he is still addressing his past.”
Durant has had a strange trajectory, going from a media darling and winning the Media Award in the past, to being one of the most controversial personas in the NBA with the incessant need to fire back and over-nail a battle he's already won.
To make things clear, Durant isn't the barbarian that is happy with taking his enemy's head and cutting it off, but he is the one who carves out the eyeballs and hangs it on a necklace to have something to show for it — an attitude which could prove ultimately destructive to a team that has based its last three seasons on exceptional on-and-off-the-court chemistry.
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