I don’t think anyone was questioning if it was a good basketball play from Lebron.
People just question when you have scored 17 points in a quarter, red hot from the field and have some room to operate should you be the one taking the shot or not.
Durant also doesn’t have that perception hanging over his head that he isn’t closer like Lebron, so if he made the pass no one would care. That is the main difference.
Here is what KD had to say.
“I saw that play,” Durant said, referring to LeBron James famously Video giving up the ball last weekend in Utah. “Udonis Haslem was wide open for a jumper that he usually makes. You know what? I’d make the same play. It was the right play. I’d have done the same thing. I can’t believe it was even an issue.”