Kevin Durant I don’t owe you anything

WHat Is it sport that makes people succumb to the order of passion? The patterns that exist that would infuriate anyone I’ve met in real life – total devotion to the employer, total and lasting love for where you live, obsession with the individual profession – are the second they are put into an athletic context, transformed into the features of a winner, a purely loyal man, Who brings the truth to this dark world. Every sports hero makes Camplan: a hero on a journey, dedicated to one noble cause.

There aren’t any other forms of storytelling, outside of writing and talking about sports, where this is entertaining. Sure, on paper Luke Skywalker is a hero star WarsBut everyone reading this knows who they really love. They love Han Solo. Lipstick. scoundrel. A clear-eyed prop for realistic thinking; An understanding of human nature that may be a bit ironic. But the second time anyone wears a uniform, they are expected to lose their humanity and become an instrument of the squad.

Kevin Durant has requested a trade away from the Brooklyn Nets. why? because the reader Organization and team dead end walking. He came to play Kyrie Irving, the superb goalkeeper who has been promoted to legend in the eyes of NBA players for reasons I don’t fully understand. When Irving, an eccentric, opted not to receive a vaccination and had to sit out several of the team’s games by decree from New York State’s COVID prevention restrictions, the team gave up their turn players for the services of hardened NBA antihero James. This didn’t work, and it was soon scrapped for Ben Simmons, which is an even bigger mystery. In these various endeavours, the team was left with no depth, no decent young players, no draft picks, and no hope of immediate or long-term success outside the skill of Durant and Irving themselves.

Popular sports fiction has created a story that if he were a big strongman, Durant would simply survive and this diverse crew would achieve true victory through the dual power of skill and leadership. This is absolute nonsense. As a fan of the Trail Blazers, I’ve watched Damien Lillard, by all accounts, a formidable leader and player whose creative force always strives to impose his will on the game first and foremost, swimming and dying with a series of smarter and smarter rolls. By squeaking the team, silver-haired ex-GM Neil Olshei. If I had been honest, Lillard would have had more success if he had made some threats, engineered the trade, and did Something Apart from looking around at his mismatched teammates, he shrugged, driving to the basket twenty times a match.

Suffering in stoic silence for honor is a fool’s game. LeBron knew it: That’s why the Cavs left for The Heat after dragging their bloated rosters to the Finals over and over again. Durant also learned it the hard way: The Oklahoma City Thunder was once a horrible team of cool boys, beloved by all, but twin agents of administrative infractions—traded James Harden right before he became a perennial MVP contender, and overwhelming middlemen who thrive in any Soil in which Russell Westbrook grows – make it swampy. And so, in pursuit of… validation, or something else, Durant left for Golden State, a well-run team that could pay their money and that was guaranteed to win the title through his services. him too. twice.

If Honor Crowd had their way, Durant would have continued the scramble in the second round while Westbrook rattled 15 feet of iron back while stealing the animal’s mascots for good. What they don’t realize is that Kevin Durant isn’t “the servant” anymore. He was a man now. and you know what men Should you be, in this world? They must be yojimbo.

If you are not familiar with Akira Kurosawa’s masterpiece, Yojimbo It tells the story of a wandering ronin, a samurai with no mastery of craftsmanship, who is drawn into a town ruled by two warring clans, played with utmost pretentiousness at the hands of the king of all actors, Toshiro Mifune. The leaders of these clans are ruthless fools who fight for very little and cause a monument of suffering in their wake. And their followers are fools whose devotion to this foolish cause is being replaced by common sense.

Ronin, who only says his name is “30-Year-Old Mulberry Field”, teams up with a local restaurateur and sets out to drive them into a war abroad and abroad by selling his services to each of the clans, back and forth, for bigger and bigger bags of money. He also plots some strange lies, frees people from prisons, and does everything in his power to spread mistrust and chaos so that the clans burn themselves and leave the city in peace.

Spoiler alert: It works. Mulberry Field designs a great and stupid war, weaken each other to the point of unbreakability, and finish off the remaining great villains in a wild duel. He does good and earns a small pile of cash, all by ostracizing the idea of ​​”samurai honor” or “chivalry” or something else. Once you see this situation as it is, exploit it, and then shake off the defeat.

A sports fan was saying, Come on, come on… he didn’t The right way. It’s all a ploy! He just had to choose one of these terrible aspects and lead him to victory, like a true warrior. But that story was bad, and that mentality is sterile and uninteresting.

What Durant and some other contemporary stars have done is look at these messy teams they play for, with their cheap, rich owners and incompetent front desks, and say, ‘I don’t really need to put up with that bullshit.

What Durant and some other contemporary stars have done is look at these messy teams they play for, with their cheap, rich owners and incompetent front desks, and say, ‘I don’t really need to put up with that bullshit. Just because I’ve walked around this town doesn’t mean I need to play by their rules, or the rules of old, braying men. take firstor fans tweeting at me on the Internet.

Once, not so long ago, Durant was unusually interested in what people thought of him: getting into online fights, trying to triangulate his moves to earn respect, and acting as if he was enjoying the company of Oklahoma City residents. But once he won titles in Oakland and didn’t get the hit he deserved from the invading crowd, tearing up his Achilles to try for another title, I think he realized something: This is all just a bunch of bullshit and he has to do whatever he wants.

Therefore, he went to the Nets, to play in a big city, with Keri. When this situation coagulated at the expense of literally everyone but him (he was awesome in Brooklyn), he said, ‘Man, damn this trade. Loyalty in this game is not real and not necessary. Durant, LeBron, Chris Paul, Ben Simmons, James Harden and every other athlete who can call his own shots are in a career with an expiration date approaching. “Loyalty” is nothing when you scrape the bottom of the barrel as your vital energy seeps out of your body.

The only group of people this trash really honors and supports are sports team owners (see above where Jenny Boss might be LeBron’s translations). LeBron, for those who don’t know, dressed up to come to the Lakers a few years ago, even though they are a second-tier organization run by old agent Kobe Bryant, for some reason. He was able to use his connections to get rid of their unpromising young core, replace them with Anthony Davis and other better players, and win a title.

But then, the incompetence and malaise began. Davis was injured, the team traded Westbrook for some reason and were knocked out in the playoffs, and LeBron got upset again. Although he brought them the nickname they did organizationally Not Worthy, Buss and other purple and gold cultists start kicking their little feet in the dirt, grumbling about LeBron and, eventually, trying to put a fan base against him by comparing him to Kobe, the player they already love.

Like John McCain before him, Kobe, after his death, became a fitting avatar for criticizing everything someone doesn’t like about the modern basketball player. Since he’s not currently alive to get hold of crypto (he totally would, no doubt), appeared on Joe Rogan, and embarrassed himself with a series of ghost-written YA novels, he’s now an angel who never did. anything Selfish while at the Lakers.

Kevin Durant #7 of the Brooklyn Nets dunks the ball during the game against the Golden State Warriors on December 22, 2020, at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.

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This, of course, is nonsense. Just like McCain, who has crossed the line with all the most heinous follies the Republican Party has made during his tenure as a leader. Especially corrupt US senatorKobe was, in life, the youngest NBA player of his generation. Shaq was forced out of town because he was jealous, and publicly sobbing at his teammates, shit on guys when they left, was dumped on Pau Gasol (who single-handedly saved the backhand of his miserable run), all under the pretext of his “psychological mastery”, but really just because he wanted to look cool. He was also a solid ball hog who took horrible shots and was lazy on defense, but…I’m only talking on civil grounds that he was toxic and miserable, here.

Anyway, the thing about all this backbiting and whining is this: It worked. Kobe, an eccentric who was perhaps the fifth-best player of his generation, earned five rings and retired as the NBA’s all-time leading scorer, all because he used his popularity like a knife and made the organization support him overall. after a year. There was no loyalty to this shit! What the hell are you talking about Jenny Boss? Not any real Cuban, that’s for sure. It’s instead talking about a fake respectable Kobe – a selfie of honor, and a serving player Team and the fans Nor Himself. But, really, why should they? Why would Durant need to give away years of his life to people who mistreat his gifts? Ignore honor, I say, and let the billionaires who control your destiny in the NBA fight for your services. They deserve his contempt. I celebrate Kevin Durant’s sarcasm, and his late turn in his yojimbo career. I wish we could all see the vicious circle of wealth in the bottomless death game, it really is.

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