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00:00All-star game here comes Kevin Durant. He'll be a teammate with Steph Curry in this new format. So
00:06We're gonna guide you through this audio because it's that kind of audio in a big room with a lot of people
00:12It's not perfectly clean and clear
00:14But take a listen and gather everything that you can
00:18We'll guide you through the rest and then we would love to hear how this makes you feel as a warrior fan
00:25This is Durant
00:26talking about
00:28this weekend and
00:30the past
00:32Look at the big picture and see I got a couple murals in that arena, in that concourse, you know
00:37So we need to prepare for it for a couple days. I know it's gonna be hard but for a couple days you can kind of
00:43forget about how I left the Warriors or how I came to
00:47Me not wanting to go back to the Warriors and just appreciate the weekend
00:50Appreciate the players that's there, hopefully people can get off that s**t and just appreciate basketball for a weekend
00:57Okay, so here's essentially what Kevin just said when he was asked about
01:01Coming back to the Bay Area for the weekend
01:04The first thing he references is you know, I do have a couple of murals in that building based on on
01:12championships and so hopefully
01:15For at least one weekend people can remember that he at one point goes. I know it's gonna be hard
01:22Which I'd like to talk about that for a second. It is
01:25Anyway, we'll get back to that
01:27Says I know it's getting hard, but I hope that people can stop thinking about how I left the Warriors
01:35How I didn't want to go back. So he's now openly speaking on that for the first time and
01:41Then says just appreciate basketball and then kind of refers to the entire thing with a profanity
01:48Just leave all that bleep. Yep away for for the weekend
01:53Now I heard this dibs and I immediately was like, oh
01:58No, yeah. Oh, yeah
02:00Oh, this is way way worse than I even realized and I've been here for all of it
02:06I know
02:07I know all of the factors like we all do
02:10With Kevin Durant and what people say about him and how there I think the majority of warrior fans are like
02:17Alright, I wish the relationship, you know
02:20I wish there weren't so many warrior fans that felt the way they do but some do but I don't think anybody do you know?
02:26Anyone who's like bleep that guy. I hate Kevin Durant
02:29I don't know anyone who feels that way about KD, but when I listen to this he does
02:36He thinks we hate him
02:39That was my number one takeaway from listening to this. I
02:43Don't and that is just a damn shame. Yeah, I don't know if I heard that
02:49I I'm hearing him describe coming back here more in terms of
02:54You know the team and the memories and all of it
02:58I do think that there was a certain amount of the fan base who was
03:02Thinking it's Steph's team
03:04And so it'll never be your team and you're his plus one and Kevin Durant looks at it like okay
03:11Yeah, I might have been his plus one because Steph is is great
03:15but I'm equally great and if the shoe was on the other foot if
03:18Steph were to join KD's team and they would have won back-to-back titles after KD had already won a title
03:24It would have felt different for KD
03:26I do think that he leaves here with a couple of different things in his mind
03:32one is the fans never fully embraced him the way he wanted to be embraced because if you want to make a list of
03:39Top 25 players of all time Steph and KD you're both on there and
03:44Steph is
03:4611 and KD's 14 or KD's 12 and Steph is 13 whatever you want to do in terms of the order
03:52But I think their two careers are pretty damn similar Steph has more titles KD probably has more
04:00Accolades in terms of uniqueness. I do think that if you wanted to look at it outside this market
04:07There's a debate that you could have and titles is always a big one for everyone
04:12But if we want to do that, then Robert Ory's got seven
04:15So Robert Ory is he the 11th best player of all time because he's got the 11th most titles
04:21Of course not so I do think in these discussions we get too bogged down in titles
04:27So I think part of it is him with a chip on his shoulder thinking
04:30Y'all in Golden State never appreciated me for how good I am and the other piece of it is the Draymond
04:37the
04:38Steve Kerr the Joe Lakob, whatever it is about Kevin Durant's time here that he doesn't want to revisit. That's interesting
04:45I hear I heard that is to pry you you heard more of like a bleep you
04:50From Kevin Durant, at least that's what I'm hearing you say or like bleep that not bleep you but like but what we know
04:57but let's define that like I I think he's talking about the fans and
05:03And saying like man
05:06I wish I could come to the Bay Area and we would just talk about and celebrate basketball as opposed to the past and then
05:14the references to the past all very negative the way I left and
05:20How I didn't want to go back
05:22And I'm like and maybe it's just me. I never looked at the way Kevin left with some sort of anger
05:31Disappointment, it's a bummer
05:33You'd love for great players to stay
05:36But I've always looked at free agency in sports where it's like dude
05:39If you want to go go like that's that's the deal, right?
05:43You've you've earned free agency
05:44And if you want to go then go and if you don't want to come back then don't come back
05:49And and that's exactly what happened
05:51in fact
05:51the Warriors
05:52Respected those wishes to such a level that they called off talks as soon as they found out that he didn't want to come
05:57Like a lot of times people like so what I don't care if he wants to come he's gonna come we'll be under contract
06:02We're gonna play. Yeah, but but they respect Kevin Durant and I think that that's maybe that's the core word
06:08We're talking about right here. I think Kevin feels like he's not respected here. Most people I know
06:16Have a ton of respect for Kevin Durant. They don't love the way it all played out
06:21But it's not did not in a disrespectful sort of a way
06:24And if you wanted to ask people
06:27For the like the family feud the top five reasons on the board why Kevin Durant wanted to leave
06:33I do think that Draymond Green would be number one as far as reasons why Kevin Durant left if what fans perceive
06:40Yeah, maybe I don't think that the fan backlash
06:43I mean the fan backlash might be number two or three and a relationship with Steve Kerr that Kevin Durant
06:49Maybe didn't love or the ownership or the lack of respect
06:54He felt I think that if you want to look at reasons for me
06:57I'm not hearing him say that it's the fans although we do know the fans never embraced him the way
07:03He felt like he should have been embraced. Yeah, that's true
07:06but at the same time I've never thought that to be as like a
07:11Surprising of a thing as as seemingly the way it's talked about like Kevin Durant wasn't embraced the same way Steph was
07:18Yeah, right, right like what are we talking about how nobody I don't get you
07:24God could stand next to Steph. I'll be like a pick Steph. Well Steph would take God. Yes, Steph would
07:31Yeah, it's a big fella. You can't pick yourself. That's the rules. Yeah, you're saying I'm saying I do
07:35How weird is it that a free agent would come here and be like yep me and Steph side-by-side, right?
07:40Y'all love us the same, right? What are we talking about? We're talking about a guy who walked in got two titles
07:46Yes, but but we're talking about a homegrown star who will go down as one of the top ten players of all time
07:52Like I don't know what we could have a real conversation about whether there is another athlete in the history of this city
07:59As beloved as Steph any sport. Yeah, you could put him next to Joe Montana and have a debate
08:06He's on the Rushmore you put him next to Barry Bonds and have a debate. Why Jerry Rice debate?
08:12It's Willie Mays and William McCovey debate and you know Bay we can add in Ricky Henderson
08:17And I know it's not this town, but we're talking about the market, right?
08:21And like but but for titles like I know he's among the Titans
08:25If I put up a vote with all those names, who do you think would win most beloved Bay Area athlete ever?
08:31Well again, you're putting up a vote and if we want to just do it in the room
08:35You've got a 28 year old and a 32 year old
08:38Right
08:40Everybody gets a vote like you didn't see Willie Mays and you only got a little bit of William a cop
08:45No, I did not but I'd also are you I've never and this is just me viewing the whole thing from a from a far
08:51As an observer, I've never seen an athlete connect with kids like stuff ever. Well, that's true ever
08:58Yeah, I mean, you know, I referee CYO and what he's done to the fourth and fifth grade basketball player is criminal
09:04I understand because I get it kids all think that they watch it. And yeah, you live it. Yeah, your kids a fifth grader
09:10It's like dude, well, he could knock down three, right?
09:12But stop going behind your back to go nowhere and these kids it's dribble dribble and I go behind the back and you've gone
09:20Nowhere, right and then fire right an airball and literally in fourth and fifth grade. We don't count threes
09:26So you're 21 footer that you just made is a two. It's a two little Timmy
09:32That's right. And I I mean great shot you make one of every 27 that counts for two homie quick aside
09:38Well, how come every time you refer to a little kid? It's Timmy. It just works. Okay, I just wondered about that
09:44And why why is every cranky?
09:46White woman Karen. Oh
09:49It's the same thing. Yeah, well the original Karen was a Karen
09:53I feel terrible for women who are named Karen brutal. They did not deserve that
09:57That's a bad beat. Yes, and just like I mean little Timmy is it's perfect because you can close your eyes and picture little Timmy
10:04Well, Timmy sure just one quick aside our neighbor who is seven years old is actually Timmy get out of here
10:11and all my daughter wants to do is go to Timmy's house and I always laugh cuz
10:15Little Timmy watch out for that kid that kid. He's a flat-out receiver. Yeah, well, you can catch a football now
10:20It's five years older than her. Yeah
10:23When she gets in middle school, it's gonna be a problem I'm gonna be in the home by then you already are anyway
10:29Remember we're giving you the key word that you need to claim the final spot in the knockout tournament coming up next
10:37Plus some of you want to weigh in we'd really like to hear from you on this
10:40Kevin Durant is coming back to the bay for the all-star game and literally the first thought on his mind is and I hope everybody
10:47Can stop worrying about how I left and all that bleep from the past and me not wanting to come
10:53Kevin Durant seems to think that he's got a very controversial relationship with the bay and I've never read it that way