I wonder when Kevin Durant decided that he was just going to say whatever he was feeling at the time to whoever he was speaking to. It is quite fascinating to watch to be honest.
I’ve seen it happen before with athletes. They just get tired of saying the PC things and all their emotions just come flooding out.
Here are KD thoughts on crying.
The tears came pretty soon after that. “I didn’t know I was gonna cry. But I never cried as a kid.”
He stops. Tells me he just cried today, in fact. “I watched this video about this guy, his son got killed in front of a nightclub in Miami. And he was shouting at his son’s murderer and just crying. I just started bawling. And I was just like, man, I’ve been so emotional since I’ve grown up. As a kid you’re taught not to be emotional. And I feel like I’m starting to let it all out. Every little thing now. So I cried today. And I felt good about it, though. I felt compassionate. I felt, like, loving and caring. I felt good.”
He pauses again. “I think, as a nation, we need to cry with each other. As a world, we need to cry with each other. That shows we care.”
This reminds me of an episode of Seinfeld when Jerry learned to have feelings and then was scared straight by George, but I digress.