That is if you believe the news, and it depends on which side this slipped out from. Smart money is on the Brooklyn side, but looking back at Kevin Durant’s career, this is the sort of hijinx he thinks shines gently on him.
Durant’s world has slept quite a bit lately since he demanded he be kicked out of Brooklyn, but every other NBA team says the amount of money they have to pump their teams to acquire Durant is probably Realized it would only lead to Durant asking for a trade-out…there in the next year or two. For the most part, everything in the basketball sense is offered to Durant, so he assumes it always works without him knowing anything.
We should have known that the whistling breeze traveled from one ear to the other when Durant refused to use the nickname “Slim Reaper.” It’s just one of the coolest nicknames for him in recent memory, and everyone claimed to call him “KD.” There’s never been a better time for what a player’s nickname should be.
When the 73-win Warriors, the greatest team of all time, do a full “He Got Game” presentation, it probably warps everyone (no, it doesn’t). that One, as far as we know) is to take you into town to fix minor flaws, whether they existed in the first place or not. And when every writer wants to tell you how you collected Finals MVPs and playoff runs in a series and eventually got promoted to Basketball Olympus where your team would have won without you anyway. distort you
And after all, even if Durant doesn’t get to play that first season, he can still triangulate land in both Brooklyn with his other friends on Kyrie Irving’s brain draining sludge. After three seasons in Houston, where I was beating out my second-best teammate each time, I decided the problem was in Houston (I didn’t). Not really going to do that, but it’s there now and I’m too lazy to fix it). You can get a destination, become a GM, pick a clearly overwhelmed coach, pick out all of your teammates, and even ship when they prove to be the same .
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…And it’s all not good enough. Now Durant wants the GM and coach fired if he is to return to the Nets, otherwise, he’ll stick to his current demand which hasn’t shown any sign of coming to a conclusion lately. Durant burned down his own house and is now screaming at the realtor about why it wasn’t flame-proof.
Durant really has never had the responsibility on him, and when he has it didn’t work and there was someone else to empty the wheelbarrow of shit onto. The Thunder couldn’t get past the Warriors or Heat, but it was Russ Westbrook’s fault. The Warriors didn’t have to count on him so he shined. The Nets have tripped over their own dick, but it was because Kyrie couldn’t stay healthy or couldn’t keep his brain on this planet, or Harden wasn’t bothered or Ben Simmons is the world’s most expensive and whiny mannequin.
Durant’s sense of self has always been outsized and misshapen, considering how much he wants to be seen as some sort of mogul, and yet no one knows what it is he does outside of basketball. It’s clear he has an image in his head that he wants, or needs, to be seen as, without recognizing any of the steps to get there.
He’s been incredulous about how the Nets treated his running buddy/hippie Irving when the team basically had its hands tied by the city and state. But the process hasn’t really mattered to Durant, just the aforementioned image.
He’s still an incredible player, and eventually, some team won’t be able to resist and the Nets won’t want to have a blank spot on his roster spot should he just stay home forever. Then again, knowing how Durant always seems to see the world backward, he could average 40 all season and then wonder why the Nets haven’t moved him.
But this emperor seems to be wearing fewer and fewer clothes with each passing season.
The Cubs finally discovered what was obvious to everyone else somewhere around 2018 — that Jason Heyward can’t play anymore, so they’re not going to let him do so anymore on their team. He has one year on the gargantuan eight-year deal he signed before the 2016 season, but the Cubs will pay him that to go away.
Heyward was on that 2016 team, which will mostly save him from a rep of being one of the bigger free agent busts of the past decade or two (85 wRC+ in seven seasons, 8.9 bWAR). He played really good defense for the first part, and was a pretty good guy for all of it (except for that whole anti-vax thing).
What Heyward will be remembered for is a speech during Game 7 of the 2016 World Series rain delay that only his teammates heard. It always seemed correlation not causation for a player who really had disappointed that season (he had five hits in all of the postseason). But he was popular amongst his teammates, and while I’m sure the speech wasn’t fabricated, its effect was certainly exaggerated by the rest of the team, as the Cubs would have been just as well off with a sentient Roomba with a glove in right as they were with Heyward.
But we should all be so lucky and good to the people around us that they make sure we have an important detail in one of the most historical sports happenings. Maybe it’s not the speech itself but the need of his teammates to boost it that tells you the most about Heyward.
