ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski reported on Christmas Day that members of the Suns group believed that Durant had grown pissed off with the workforce and their present roster amid accidents to Bradley Beal and Devin Booker. In keeping with Wojnarowski, Phoenix “has obtained to vary quickly” so as to proper the ship.
Durant has since confirmed that he’s effectively conscious of the report, in addition to any fan criticism stemming from it. The extraordinarily on-line Suns energy ahead commented on an Instagram video that featured a tweet asking “Has Kevin Durant checked out[?]”
“Woj says any person else ‘feels’ that I’m pissed off and it became me being mentally checked out,” Durant wrote within the since-deleted remark. “This sh*t loopy, these folks can flat out lie on my identify and make sh*t up and also you folks will imagine it however when my teammates n coaches converse on how I’m as a teammate, u ignore it lol/”
The remark, which has since been deleted, comes after Durant completed with 16 factors (a season low), eight rebounds, seven assists and 6 turnovers in Phoenix’s Christmas loss to the Dallas Mavericks. On the podium, the 10-time All-NBA ahead admitted he must be higher and his turnovers are “holding the workforce again.”
On the season, Durant is having one in every of his finest offensive years in current reminiscence. His 30.3 factors per sport can be the second-best of his profession and finest since his 2013-2014 MVP season with the Oklahoma Thunder. He’s additionally averaging 5.5 assists per sport, tied for fourth-most in his 17 years of play. Durant’s 3.6 turnovers per sport would even be his highest since 2011-2012.
At 14-15, the Suns are presently half a sport out of the Western Convention Play-In Match.
