Wanda Durant was in attendance on Saturday evening when Kevin Durant led the Golden State Warriors into Oklahoma City to take on the Thunder. It was the first time that Durant returned to Oklahoma City to face the Thunder and his return to OKC was expected to bring some boos when he took the court. But for Durant’s mom, KD was getting ripped to shreds.
Kevin Durant brought extra security with him, and his teammates for their trip to Oklahoma City and his mother was also fitted with some company in her travels through OKC. During the game, Durant felt the heat from the fans all night with boos, special shirts, fan signs, and the occasional ‘cupcake’ chants, stemming from an apparent shot Russell Westbrook took on Instagram over the summer following Durant’s departure from the Thunder.
But KD was killed in OKC from start to finish, and his mom wasn’t a fan.
Following from Ramona Shelburne of ESPN.
“The most vicious things you could say, they said about my son tonight. It’s hurtful,” Wanda Durant told ESPN after the Golden State Warriors’ 130-114 win over the Oklahoma City Thunder.
“We poured our heart into this place. Not just him. Our family. This is basketball. This is not whether or not you’re going to make it into heaven.”
Wanda Durant sat in the stands behind the Warriors’ bench for the game. She said several fans approached her and said obscene things about her son, to her.
“They called him a snake, a sellout, a b—-,” she said. “It’s just a sad day. I understand that they loved him. I do understand it. But the name-calling. The people with the cupcakes on their backs. … It didn’t have to be like this.”
“This is not the first time I’ve been back since Kevin left,” she said. “This is maybe my fourth or fifth time. Every time that I’ve been back, people seem like they are afraid to say something nice to me. People will whisper, ‘There’s his mom. Ooooooh!’
“There are people who tell me they still love him. But then you have the people who shot his jersey up. My son poured his heart and soul into this place for eight years, and for them to treat him like this because he decided to go someplace else to play is really tough.”
