{"id":409844,"date":"2022-10-21T23:54:15","date_gmt":"2022-10-21T23:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/?p=409844"},"modified":"2022-10-21T23:54:15","modified_gmt":"2022-10-21T23:54:15","slug":"kevin-durant-is-sick-of-treatment-russell-westbrook-is-receiving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/kevin-durant-is-sick-of-treatment-russell-westbrook-is-receiving\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Durant Is Sick Of Treatment Russell Westbrook Is Receiving!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Durant, a former teammate of Russell Westbrook&#8217;s, has come out in support of the beleaguered <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/lakers\">Los Angeles Lakers<\/a> point guard. Durant argued that Westbrook&#8217;s detractors had gone too far in their criticism in the most recent episode of his podcast with Boardroom, &#8220;The ETCs,&#8221; and he referred to the media environment as &#8220;toxic.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Nets player made the remarks in reference to Westbrook drawing criticism for a number of social media videos that showed him showing off on his own while the rest of the squad huddled up. One, in particular, attracted attention before a preseason game against the Minnesota Timberwolves.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Kevin Durant has had enough of the Russell Westbrook jokes.\ud83d\ude2e <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kL6rtmyF5k\">pic.twitter.com\/kL6rtmyF5k<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; theScore (@theScore) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/theScore\/status\/1583103244082958336?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 20, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In the Lakers&#8217; penultimate preseason game against the Minnesota Timberwolves on Wednesday, viral videos showed Westbrook purportedly separating himself from his teammates before tip-off and then entering a team huddle late in the game went viral.<\/p>\n<p>Westbrook is currently playing for a team with a sizable market and alongside the most well-known NBA player in the last 30 years, which has a significant impact on how people perceive him, according to Durant.<\/p>\n<p>Despite all the chatter, KD is rooting for Brodie, stating he should keep playing, ignore the critics, and disprove everyone except for one.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Kevin Durant defends Russell Westbrook<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt&#39;s like now you&#39;re making him the butt of your jokes. &#8230; The dialogue around our game is just so toxic at this point.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YN7wUxaAV9\">https:\/\/t.co\/YN7wUxaAV9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NBACentral (@TheDunkCentral) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheDunkCentral\/status\/1582431037463793665?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 18, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"ue-c-article__subheadline\">Kevin Durant responds to trolls that attack Westbrook!<\/h2>\n<p><em> &#8220;I understand that there are certain points where you don&#8217;t play well, and you are open to criticism when you don&#8217;t play well &#8212; we get that. But it&#8217;s like now you&#8217;re making him the butt of your jokes. It&#8217;s getting to a point where it&#8217;s like, alright, I get the criticism for what he did that night, but now it&#8217;s starting to reach a different level with some shit that I don&#8217;t understand right now. So hopefully, he just keeps hooping and blocks all that noise out and proves to everybody that they&#8217;re wrong about how they feel about his game and they mesh over there in L.A. But when we play them, I hope they play shitty, but I hope all that stuff works out because I hate how they talk. The dialogue around our game is just so toxic at this point. I get criticism, but it&#8217;s starting to turn into something else right now.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Kevin Durant shares his thoughts on how people are treating Russell Westbrook <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JRZpUH8lF4\">pic.twitter.com\/JRZpUH8lF4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; 2Cool2Blog (@2Cool2BlogTV) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/2Cool2BlogTV\/status\/1582411138897018882?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 18, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Durant continues, &#8220;I detest how people talk,&#8221; adding that he believes that NBA fans right now are generally more critical than usual. The conversation surrounding our game is currently so poisonous. I receive criticism, but it&#8217;s beginning to evolve right now.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Kevin Durant gave his thoughts on the criticism Russell Westbrook has been receiving.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pWnduuNOOW\">https:\/\/t.co\/pWnduuNOOW<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/m5KIcZdEKA\">pic.twitter.com\/m5KIcZdEKA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Lakers Nation (@LakersNation) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LakersNation\/status\/1582749159831896065?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 19, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Russell Westbrook has received a lot of nicknames over the previous year, to which Durant is undoubtedly alluding. Even worse for the guy, there is a video of Magic Johnson inadvertently calling him &#8220;Westbrick.&#8221; Videos of Russell yelling at supporters for calling him have already gained widespread popularity. But Durant&#8217;s critique of NBA supporters goes far further than that. Is Kevin Durant overreacting, or is the NBA genuinely having an issue right now?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wiz9Wid1TYc\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>FOR MORE NBA UPDATES-<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/nba-world-lebron-james-accountable-for-poor-team-performance\/\">NBA World: LeBron James Accountable For Poor Team Performance<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/celtics-marcus-smart-extremely-upset-on-joel-embiid-incident\/\">Celtics Marcus Smart Extremely Upset On Joel Embiid Incident<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Durant, a former teammate of Russell Westbrook&#8217;s, has come out in support of the beleaguered Los Angeles Lakers point guard. Durant argued that Westbrook&#8217;s detractors had gone too far in their criticism in the most recent episode of his podcast with Boardroom, &#8220;The ETCs,&#8221; and he referred to the media environment as &#8220;toxic.&#8221; The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":396557,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,51],"tags":[46,2553,1940,506],"class_list":["post-409844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brooklyn-nets","category-nba","tag-kevin-durant","tag-nba-2022","tag-nba-updates","tag-russell-westbrook"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}