Shannon Sharpe & Gilbert Arenas explain why Kevin Durant was never accepted by Warriors | Nightcap

Shannon Sharpe & Gilbert Arenas explain why Kevin Durant was never accepted by Warriors | Nightcap

Uncultured Jay asked one simple question UNC Gil when or if Will KD ever be content I think it’s happy asking for too much at this I I think happy is asking too much at this point I look up and I’m expecting this man every seven8

Months act for a trade I don’t I don’t know I mean I I look I understand you know I don’t think I can win a championship in OKC he went to the perfect situation caught a lot of criticism and I don’t think people was upset I think was more upset that you

Joined that team the team that knocked you out when you had them down 3-1 and you say well that okay you go there you win two championships your finals MVP you probably would have won a third had your kees not gone out and then you move

On you want to go to Brooklyn you you recruit Kyrie or Kyrie recruited you and you end up in Brooklyn and you’re not happy there and for whatever reason you wanted to move on and I’m like bro I mean what I mean what what is if I were to

Ask you because you played this Sport and you kind of know him somewhat you kind of been maybe you’ve been around him what’s he looking for he’s looking to play basketball that it seems it seems simple right where when you’re talking about a guy who I mean let me see how many scoring

Titles KD got four yeah right and and when people ask why he left right when you’re talking about four and SC uh four scoring titles he had probably about with 10 all NBAs you had an MVP you had Allstar MVPs right um eight time Allstar two Golds

When you’re a free agent the only thing that you don’t have on your resume was a ship in the finals MVP right you get those two out of the way in his mind or just in my mind what am I proving here the only thing I’m proving now

Is get more right right do I need more Rings like like am I the greatest small forward ever am I the second greatest small forward ever like am I one of the top five ever like right I train I work out I train I I go to sleep basketball

Right I’m out there you know putting my heart into it as I think as players we can sleep great at night knowing that we give it our all and whatever comes with it comes with it but I don’t really think he’s looking for something I just think he wants to play highle basketball

Most most most players do the great ones right if they’re in position to win chips they’re going to go for it other than that they just want to go out there and play hard and everybody with them going out there and playing hard Gil you know going to Golden State

Hurt him more than it helped him I understand he got the chips but unless he gets one without Steph Curry you already know how this story is gonna be written you know that and unfortunately I think KD knows that fair unfair right or wrong it is what it is

But okay but when we when we think of it like that right it’s not like he can go to a team and he is by himself and try to win a champ no but he recruited Kyrie he had James heart yes yeah so no matter where he goes in this league today there

Has to be a team up so when he do win they’re gonna say well you got bill over there n you got no I think the thing is with Steph I mean you join a two-time unan you join a unanimous MVP and Steph Curry was already at that point in time

The greatest shooter we had ever seen and so that system and I I get it okay I just want to get y’all off my back let me go ahead and get these titles I get these titles I’ll calm it down no people was looking at you like bro there was 29

Other teams that you could have join 28 because you had left OKC there’s 28 other team and you mean to tell me you go join the team that had just won 73 games and just lost in a game seven in the NBA Finals that was the only team

You can find okay he he’s like look I’m a free agent I’m a free agent and as a free agent I can go wherever I want to go fine for whatever reason be it he had grown bored of winning I mean he say you want to play high level basketball can

You play any higher level than the Golden State Warriors and go and be in three NBA Finals you win two probably would have won a third had he not gotten injured so where are you gonna go and play higher level than that so who are you going to go play with other than

LeBron or at that time LeBron and Le Ron and ktie and Steph were thought over as the best players in the NBA with Harden falling up under of that so now Who you gonna go play with Joel andb Nicole yic Yannis where where can he go now I don’t

Know where he can go I don’t know how he outruns because he had four years the first year we’re gonna disregard that he was rehabbing but he had three years and he didn’t come close but but it’s not because of him right you know the the stuff that went

Down in Brooklyn he was there he did his thing but we give him credit but we give him credit for with the Golden State so we if we can’t if he loses it’s not because of him but when Golden State won the titles it was because of

Him but it was because of him why can’t he win on his own why can’t he win other than Golden State then that’s that I think that’s I think that’s the question Gil people want to know if he if it was him in Golden State why can’t he do

Replicate what why can’t he take what he learned and take it somewhere else because he was he he he he he was a single player coming into a team atmosphere he was Plug and Play now he has to build a team around him where he can just adjust the one person will

Adjust now when he tried to create a team everyone has to adjust to everything um we can talk about how Kevin Durant going to Golden State was a bad thing it was the best thing that the league has ever seen and they do not want to acknowledge it since magic and bird what

Was the best D going against each other in the championship LeBron versus KD yeah but LeBron versus KD not LeBron versus KD step Draymond and Clay the best the best small forwards in the game and I don’t know why this wasn’t looked at like two Titans the

Best player in the world versus the second best player in the world right right one called himself I’m the best scorer in the world versus the best player you had two Titans playing against each other and we spent our time talking about we spent our time talking

About KD leaving not realizing what we was witnessing oh I ain’t got no problem with we no but what I’m saying we was witnessing that Kevin Durant and like when we all talk about Kobe the one thing that we didn’t get to see is Kobe and Lebron in the championship against

We got to see Kevin Durant and LeBron go face to face right we got the magic and bird but we’re never going to acknowledge this because we was upset that he took the easy the easy way out right and I but I think the thing is

When we look at Magic and Bird magic had Karine bird had Mel he had worthy he had Parish they had Byron Scott they had DJ or you know so it was like okay you got four hall of famers we got four hall of famers okay you got a a coach that’s

That’s going to the hall we got one that’s going to the hall so I think everybody looked at it as an even matchup I don’t think anybody thought that the way that Cleland even though it was Kyrie and LeBron was gonna be able to beat Golden State with st clay KD and

Draymond that wasn’t gonna happen and I think that I think that’s what that’s what the uh you know when KD and and and and and LeBron locked horns and Miami and OKC you like okay you know okay Sergio Baka and uh uh Chris Bosch we got Russ D way

And now KD and Lebron and they had to guard each other they had to guard yeah I mean that was but that was a great match up but you know it was young it was young versus a veteran and then but when that Golden State Cleveland Cavaliers Series

Got because you know it was it was gonna be between those two um I wish after they won it after Cleveland won it and Golden State got Kevin Durant I thought Cleveland should have made a move it don’t matter you should have known you was gonna be outgunned who you

Gonna give up you first of all who want to come to Cleveland that was the problem why Lebron got up out of there no no that’s facts but I mean at this point look like J.R Smith was my what he was my Klay Thompson right you know Klay is averaging 21

J.R Smith averaging 13 for sure you know what I mean so you know it was really it was really outmatch so from there they should have been in tune with the game and said okay we might need to upgrade a little bit more we’re not good enough to try to go back to

Back uh first name last name said Gil Gil was a great addition Shannon do you remember when you said Katie and Kyrie will potentially play together when they were seen at the allstar game Talking KD lashed out saying it was some BS they join they join

I just say it I remember I said look and I tried and I I played him a compliment I said KD joining golden state was like Johnny Gil joining New Edition Johnny Gil could out sing them all we know the outstanding career Bobby Brown had we know what Ralph transv did

We knew what B BB devot ended up doing once they broke up but none of them singularly could out sing Johnny Gil and the reason why Johnny Gil wasn’t accepted he didn’t grow up in Boston and rockberry yeah facts KD was never going to be and I’m not saying they didn’t

Like him but K but Steph clay Draymond came there they was birthed they grew up there although KD was KD it wasn’t gonna be accepted he called me oh this you don’t know what you talking about W that’s an ignorant thing to say later he get on the podcast like I was

Never gonna be accepted like KD is Ste because bro I I said that but you know we delusional sometimes right you know come on just like in our relationship hey our boys are the first one to tell us hey your girl cheating on you she a like that she ain’t like

That find out just like that yes and that’s and that’s the that’s the same thing like we don’t want to believe right that it is this and we have to find out the hard way he had to find out on that Court when he’s asking for the

Ball he had to sit there and go back back and forth with Draymond Green and Draymond Green had to let him know we was here before you we don’t need you that that hurt it did and oh we wouldn’t finish that season a I I don’t I don’t

Know how I can come to work knowing that you really believe that deep down inside why am I three people will tell you the truth Gil drunks kids and angry people they gonna tell you the truth now see they’ll blame it on I just said thing

Out of anger well I was drunk I didn’t know what I was think talking about and kids you know they say kids say the darnest thing you so so I got a way to brush off either one of Those

Shannon Sharpe and Gilbert Arenas discuss the impact of Kevin Durant’s decision to leave the Golden State Warriors. They explain why KD was never accepted by Warriors fans like Stephen Curry, Draymond Green, and Klay Thompson.

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