all right so kevin durant is close to
returning to the court
uh missed quite a few games with that uh
calf injury
but um looking forward to seeing him
back he continues though to miss the
point
um not just when it comes to his twitter
and social media engagement which all
right man do you
but when it comes to uh some of the
language
that he used in a private
direct message exchange with michael
rappaport which should have remained
private but nonetheless michael
rappaport released it
and then kevin durant um
non unapologetically apologized
yesterday
to the people who he may have offended
here it is
i'm sorry that people seen uh that
language i use that's not really
what i want people to see and hear from
me
but hopefully i can move past it and get
back out on the floor
okay well hopefully i can move past it
and get back on
the floor which is like talking move
past my issue y'all stopped talking
about it
that's what's moving past it y'all don't
bring it up no more
my issue vinnie is the you know
that's not what i want people to see and
hear from me
what you should be thinking is that's
not who i want to be
that's not the language i want to be
using
that i i need to grow up i need to do
some kind of reflection and realize
that language privately or publicly is
inappropriate
and not how i want to represent myself
and i apologize
i will do better not i don't want people
to see that for me
you know what i'm saying it's like
you're still missing it you remember
that episode of the boondocks with uh
la milton taishan that was just uh doing
all the bad stuff and you know
i just want to do bad stuff and you know
hang out with my friends like and then
when he had to apologize he was like i'm
sorry i did it i'll never do it again
it just sounded so dry and i was
watching kd yesterday on the zoom
and he it looked like he was reading
from a prepared statement one thing
kevin durant is not going to do
is to give the public what the public
wants
whether that's some humbling whether
that's
i'm going to get it right anything
that's some admission of i didn't get
it right kevin durant is not going to
give the public that he has been
as defiant as any superstar
that i can say over the at least over
the past 15 years in the nba like i
can't think of a player who has such a
pronounced chip on his shoulder when by
and large he never really got criticism
until
golden state but i think since then he's
taken such an adversarial relationship
with the public period whether that's
michael rapaport or that's twitter i'll
just say this
the boy needs basketball or a woman that
sounds like somebody with too much damn
time on their hands
too much man he needs he needs a woman
to occupy his
time or he needs to be back on the floor
post haste
all right all right fellas they can
handle a basketball but they can't
handle the phone
okay how do we feel about this though in
all fairness
the public the private conversation
going public so i'm just trying to think
i'm looking on my phone right now and
and the worst
text and the worst text messages i have
the worst ones
and if they went public how i would feel
about it
how do you feel about that video so is
that like i'm glad i'm
i'm glad you asked that let me let me
answer that i'm glad you asked that
one is michael rappaport it's foul
but i would expect nothing better for
michael rappaport that's a code
violation
it was a direct message it should not be
shared but i can't control if i'm kd i
can't control what michael rappaport
does
he decided to be foul and get attention
which his name has been mentioned more
in the last couple of days
than it deserves to be and has been for
some time but if you're kevin durant
this is about
you and this is about you are on a
higher level
we're all equal we all got children but
you're on a higher level than michael
rappaport michael
you're punching down when you're dealing
with michael rapaport and
this is about you and who you want to be
and michael maybe this just hits home
for me
because and kevin durant's not my child
i'm not trying to chastise him
i am literally i literally took mason's
phone the other day
i took his phone the other day because i
went through some of his messages
and saw some of the language that he was
using okay
so this is about who kevin durant wants
to be as a person
and you just talked about it with
hip-hop michael we got to get better
with how we talk in the words we use
vinnie the floor is yours
oh you asking me about some of the vile
text messages i've sent or received
absolutely i'll probably call people
something other than less than a child
of god
in some situations and best believe they
deserved it
all right whether that was me as a 20
something year old or
or in my 30s now and you're right but i
think the thing is
i think the reason that kevin durant is
not going to apologize
is largely because it is michael
rappaport even if he's apologizing to
the public
i think the sincerity will come across a
lot better if it wouldn't
seem like it's an apology to this dude
who did something foul
now when you talk about the person that
you want to be we all fall short
right nobody is perfect nobody is going
to say that
we don't do things that in private that
if it came out in public
we would look less than the quality
humans that we are and not necessarily
that we're faking it or anything else
but we all fall short
i think where kevin doesn't necessarily
get to this
he doesn't want to he doesn't want to
give the public anything
because look i'll tell you this i've
been a jerk on twitter to some people
and they've
all deserved it i've been a complete
jerk i've made your mama jokes
i've made your mama took me the red
lobster you know
like i've made all of those type of
jokes i am not going to sit here
and act like i'm not throwing stones so
but i will say it is michael rappaport
that's a foul move bro wow
yeah no what totally wack totally
wrecked
um and no you're absolutely right none
of us is perfect all have fallen short
um especially on social media you know
i've gotten into a lot of back and forth
that it
it brings out more than anything i'm i'm
upset i'm upset that i wasted that time
which goes back to kd
like save your energy like you're not
convincing anybody to look at you
differently than they already do
um i think he's in the thing
i think whatever he dives into he dives
into
fully like with no life vest with no
life jacket like basketball you don't
become
the type of basketball player that he is
unless you're obsessed with it like
there's no guard rails
so i think it's the same thing on
twitter and instagram where
there are no internal clocks there
there's nothing to tell him you know
what this isn't worth my time
let's pull back he and clearly i don't i
won't say that he doesn't have the
people in his corner say kevin you
shouldn't be like this
i kind of appreciate the
the humanity of it that he's not perfect
that he's willing to be
a little vulnerable but i do think you
have to be an adult
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