{"id":411924,"date":"2022-11-21T12:20:08","date_gmt":"2022-11-21T12:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/?p=411924"},"modified":"2022-11-21T12:20:08","modified_gmt":"2022-11-21T12:20:08","slug":"kevin-durant-breaks-silence-about-kyrie-irving-controversy-im-not-about-to-tell-a-grown-a-man-what-he-can-and-cant-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/kevin-durant-breaks-silence-about-kyrie-irving-controversy-im-not-about-to-tell-a-grown-a-man-what-he-can-and-cant-do\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Durant Breaks Silence About Kyrie Irving Controversy: I&#8217;m not about to tell a grown-a** man what he can and can&#8217;t do"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Brooklyn Nets, who have struggled to maintain consistency this season, could not have benefited more from the return of Kyrie Irving. With a record of 7-9, they have remained below.\u00a0Five hundred the whole campaign and are currently out of the playoff picture. Kevin Durant, a star for the Nets, thinks that Irving&#8217;s return should give the team a significant boost. Irving averages 26.9 points, 5.1 rebounds, and 5.1 assists for the Nets this year.<\/p>\n<h2>Kevin Durant:\u00a0I&#8217;m not about to tell a grown-a** man what he can and can&#8217;t do<\/h2>\n<p>Irving has been on the receiving end of criticism after missing out on several games last season due to his vaccination status. Recently, he took to Twitter to boost an alleged anti-semitic movie and book, Hebrews to Negroes.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Kyrie Irving laughed at KD for missing a layup <\/p>\n<p>&quot;He grab my whole waist&quot; -Kevin Durant excuse why he missed a gimme \ud83d\ude05<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NetsWorld?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NetsWorld<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EgGxx8XV4z\">pic.twitter.com\/EgGxx8XV4z<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jeri Tsai (@JeriTsaiNets) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JeriTsaiNets\/status\/1594514473846382594?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 21, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m not a leader? What the f**k does that mean?&#8221; Kevin Durant told B\/R.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A lot of people say I&#8217;m not a leader because I didn&#8217;t tell Kyrie to get vaccinated. Come on. Or I didn&#8217;t condemn Kyrie for leaving the team, going out and living his life.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m not about to tell a grown-as** man what he can and can&#8217;t do with his own life and dissect his views or how he thinks about s**t.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/Mr_Bond___\/status\/1594476302723153921?s=20&#038;t=kXhwzUtQTz-OATILnrvKVAnbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We can have a conversation and exchange perspectives on how I feel about the topic and you feel about the topic, but everybody else doesn&#8217;t need to know or hear about our conversations because we&#8217;re grown-ass men. I don&#8217;t operate like that.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t need to show or tell everybody what I&#8217;m doing with my teammates so y&#8217;all can pump me up and say, &#8216;Yeah, KD, you&#8217;re the boss, you&#8217;re the leader.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These other [expletives] need that. I don&#8217;t. I don&#8217;t come to you and say, &#8216;Haynes, write this story about me.&#8217; I don&#8217;t do that to anybody. But I come here and respect y&#8217;all. I talk to y&#8217;all like a real one, even after a blowout [loss].&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;A lot of people say I&#39;m not a leader because I didn&#39;t tell Kyrie to get vaccinated. Come on. Or I didn&#39;t condemn Kyrie for leaving the team\u2026 I&#39;m not about to tell a grown-ass man what he can and can&#39;t do with his own life.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kevin Durant<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChrisBHaynes?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ChrisBHaynes<\/a>) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WL7EUjpEPi\">pic.twitter.com\/WL7EUjpEPi<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; ClutchPoints (@ClutchPoints) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ClutchPoints\/status\/1592939906271424512?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 16, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Durant On Kyrie Irving&#8217;s Return<\/h2>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s exciting for everybody. I mean, we miss Ky. we miss his presence on the floor,\u201d Kevin Durant told reporters after a team shootaround on November 17<a href=\"https:\/\/www.netsdaily.com\/2022\/11\/17\/23464998\/kevin-durant-on-anticipated-return-of-kyrie-irving-gonna-give-us-a-much-needed-spark\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\"> via NetsDaily.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI haven\u2019t talked to him since we\u2019ve been on the road trip about it, the last couple of days. But we\u2019re looking forward to his return to the team. Definitely going to give us a much-needed spark.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Kevin Durant on the Kyrie suspension \u201cI think about all my teammates and how they\u2019re doing and what they\u2019re going through as NBA players. I want the best for everybody. Ky, the organization, I just want everything to be, all of us to be aligned. It was a rough situation.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Brooklyn Netcast (@BrooklynNetcast) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BrooklynNetcast\/status\/1592927803233964039?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 16, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>It should be noted Irving\u2019s return on Sunday has yet to be confirmed by the Nets. Durant admitted he had been left in the dark about all the details concerning his suspension and pending return.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know the details about anything that\u2019s going on,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.netsdaily.com\/2022\/11\/17\/23464998\/kevin-durant-on-anticipated-return-of-kyrie-irving-gonna-give-us-a-much-needed-spark\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">he added<\/a>. \u201cI should know, I guess, because I\u2019m part of the team, but I\u2019ve been totally focused on the road trip. Once we get back home, I\u2019m sure that stuff will figure itself out. But hopefully, it\u2019s soon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JnVeNrdkYCU\" 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-trainer-rob-mcclanaghan-arrested-on-rape-drugging-charge\/\">NBA Trainer Rob McClanaghan Arrested On Rape &amp; Drugging Charge<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Brooklyn Nets, who have struggled to maintain consistency this season, could not have benefited more from the return of Kyrie Irving. With a record of 7-9, they have remained below.\u00a0Five hundred the whole campaign and are currently out of the playoff picture. Kevin Durant, a star for the Nets, thinks that Irving&#8217;s return should [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":397070,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,51],"tags":[3546,46,154,3512,2553,2215,1940],"class_list":["post-411924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brooklyn-nets","category-nba","tag-brooklyn-nets-news","tag-kevin-durant","tag-kyrie-irving","tag-kyrie-irving-anti-semitic","tag-nba-2022","tag-nba-news","tag-nba-updates"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411924","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=411924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}