Kevin Durant and Scottie Pippen - shots fired
I don't know if you've been following this but Scottie Pippen said some things about Kevin Durant and of course Durant retaliated. These two are going at it. Basically, Scottie Pippen said that Kevin Durant is selfish and doesn't play team basketball like Lebrin James does and that Durant will never be as great as Lebron James, and Durant fired back by bringing up the incident where Scottie Pippen was mad about Tony Kukoc taking the last shot.
Kevin Durant Fires Back at Scottie Pippen's Criticism After Nets' Second-Round Exit
Kevin Durant is a player of whom many superlatives can be applied: a singular basketball talent, one of the best and most accomplished players in NBA history, and perhaps the most skilled big man the game has ever seen.
He's also in the running for the "most online" player in the league today. Durant's foe in his latest Twitter feud? Hall of Famer Scottie Pippen.
Pippen drew Durant's ire after the former made comments in a profile with GQ's Tyler R. Tynes in which the former Bull compared Durant unfavorably to LeBron James after Durant's Nets lost in the Eastern Conference semifinals to the Bucks. Durant spent most of the series playing without an injured Kyrie Irving and alongside a hobbled James Harden.
"When you’re leading the troops, you gotta know how to lead and win," Pippen said. "And KD, as great as his offense was, it turned out to be his worst enemy because he didn’t know how to play team basketball when it came down to it. He kept trying to go punch for punch. ... LeBron would’ve been better in that kind of situation because he would’ve used his team to pick them apart."
For the series, Durant averaged 35.4 points, 10.6 rebounds and 5.4 assists on 49.7% shooting from the field.
Durant was quick to fire back at Pippen Thursday, pointing out Pippen's past failings on the court and, in Durant's view, selfish behavior when rehabbing an injury while with Chicago.
In the GQ piece, Pippen was asked what happened when he subbed himself out of a 1994 playoff game in the final possession after the Bulls drew up a play for Toni Kukoč to take the last shot.
"It was my first year playing without Michael Jordan, why wouldn’t I be taking that last shot? I been through all the ups and downs, the battles with the Pistons and now you gonna insult me and tell me to take it out? I thought it was a pretty low blow," Pippen said. "I felt like it was an opportunity to give [Kukoč] a rise. It was a racial move to give him a rise. After all I’ve been through with this organization, now you're gonna tell me to take the ball out and throw it to Toni Kukoč? You’re insulting me. That’s how I felt."
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Some of Scottie Pippen's quotes in which he blames Durant for the Nets losing in the playoffs:
Kevin Durant retaliates:
Kevin Durant strikes back!
Both of these guys are too sensitive when it came to playing in someone else’s shadow, I think the difference though in their legacies is Jordan couldn’t win without Pippen while Curry didn’t need KD to win a ring.
That being said, watching Pippen try to defend KD would have been pretty entertaining. Scottie might have had the length to possibly slow Durant down on the offensive end.
Eric
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It appears that Durant had some help with his criticism of Pippen from Mr. TeaBagzzzz and Free Palestine. They jumped him, they've jumped Scottie!
Mr TeaBagz?
That's Mr. TeaBagzzzz with 4 z's. You'll have to get that right next time, remember, Kevin Durant is always watching.
KD hasn’t had to face a defense remotely comparable to the “ Jordan Rules” Pistons who treated Scottie the same way so I’m to sure that they should be talking about how soft he is.
Eric
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I hope they get it all worked out.
Yes, I hope they get it all worked out as well.
I hope Pippen responds to Durant's latest jab, what's taking Pippen so long? I wonder if he's sleeping or if he's even up yet? 🤔
Come on Pippen, say something, I want a fight!
Yes, here we go some action. Scottie Pippen was watching First Take, and Stephen A. Smith was talking about the Durant vs Pippen beef. Well, Scottie Pippen couldn't help but chime in about it and he tweeted to Stephen A. Smith that "Lebron James won a championship without any help." In turn, Stephen A. Smith read Pippen's tweet and addressed it on-air.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LrzASCB3RMc
pippen one- upped his nonsense today on the dan patrick show.
Pippen is a nut job.
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Fellas, leave the tight pants to the ladies. If I can count the coins in your pockets you better use them to call a tailor. Stay thirsty my friends......
He must be bored, all of a sudden he is throwing darts in every direction. He is getting air time though
Wake me up when it's over.
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