Earlier today, Los Angeles Clippers soon-to-be retired veteran Paul Pierce said some things during a Sirius XM NBA interview about Kevin Durant leaving the Oklahoma City Thunder and joining the Golden State Warriors. It was your usual run of the mill ‘I had my chance to leave but I didn’t and former legend x didn’t do it so why would he’ argument. It’s becoming a tired narrative and it appears the general public aren’t the only ones fed up with this Kevin Durant nonsense.
Durant did it and it’s over with. But the talking heads need some content to deliver narratives. Unfortunately for Pierce, Draymond Green heard what ‘The Truth’ had to say and he completely ripped on him and other critics of KD’s move. He also managed to compare Durant to an Apple executive in the process.
Check out what Green had to say, courtesy of Anthony V. Slater of the San Jose Mercury News.
GREEN: “I just wonder at what point do they get bored talking about the same thing. You got all these guys talking. Like (Paul) Pierce today, like, dude nobody care what you did or who you did it for. Just give it a break. Everybody got something to say and want to take everything he say and twist it. Like, he play with the Warriors. OKC has their team, we have our team. He left there. Nobody complain when somebody leave Apple and go to Google. Aren’t they in competition with each other? Nobody talk junk about the CEO who leaves Apple and goes to Google. As a basketball player, you are the CEO of a business. You are a business. Kevin Durant is a big business. He is the CEO of that business. So him going to play basketball for a different team, the CEO decided to leave where he was at and go somewhere else.”
“But there’s so many guys in this league that are so stupid they don’t think like that. They don’t think business wise. It happens every day in the world. But in basketball it’s a problem. Aren’t you competitive in your day job if you work for Apple? Don’t you want to outdo Google? What’s the difference on the basketball court. It’s your day job. You want to do what’s better for you. If it’s better for your family life, better for your happiness. Ain’t no one criticizing them. I don’t understand it. I’ll never understand it. So that’s just me. And I’d be willing to bet my salary ain’t many guys in this league more competitive than me.”
How has Kevin been behind the scenes with this stuff?
GREEN: “He’s been himself. No one is worried about that. He laugh at it the times I’ve seen it. It’s a joke for real. Like these dudes got kids and they worried about what this grown man is doing with his life? Give it a break.”
Knowing Paul Pierce, don’t expect him to stay quiet for long.
