Kevin Durant is going to talk about Russell Westbrook until the end of the time and Westbrook is going to keep ignoring the questions.
This time KD talks to Bill Simmons about their awkwardness via The Oklahoman.
BS: Did you even have a moment with Westbrook that first game? Did you even acknowledge each other?
KD: Nah.
BS: That part’s strange to me.
KD: Yeah, I can’t lie. It is. Because we spent some time together. And I understand who I left to go to and what happened and all this stuff. And then on top of that, to me, I don’t really think he got a problem. I don’t really think it’s — but if you ask a man every single day about me, I would be pissed, too…So I think that’s what added to this feud or this beef that we have, which is all manufactured.BS: Did you even have a moment with Westbrook that first game? Did you even acknowledge each other?
KD: Nah.
BS: That part’s strange to me.
KD: Yeah, I can’t lie. It is. Because we spent some time together. And I understand who I left to go to and what happened and all this stuff. And then on top of that, to me, I don’t really think he got a problem. I don’t really think it’s — but if you ask a man every single day about me, I would be pissed, too…So I think that’s what added to this feud or this beef that we have, which is all manufactured.
Simmons asked about the all-star game and how they tended to ignore each for the most part.
It was awkward for me because I’m like — first of all, I got pride. We both got pride. So if I walk up to somebody and they just ignore me I would get really upset. I would get really mad. You know what I’m saying? I don’t really get mad at a lot. But that pisses me off. So I didn’t want to make it an awkward situation for him. I didn’t want to make it an awkward situation for me. So it was weird.
I never even told nobody this. I wanted to ask Russell, like, ‘How’s your family doing, man? How you feel?’ Stuff that normal people talk about. But there’s so many cameras watching and it’s ‘Oh, what’d they talk about? They didn’t look at each other. They didn’t even say hi.’ It was just making me so mad.
Hopefully we get a Thunder-OKC playoff matchup and then they can hug it all out. Did you catch the Morris Day reference.
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