Bill Simmons has made a career of separating himself from the sports world’s established hierarchy, inserting himself as The Fan Voice in a conversation dominated by Journalists and Athletes. But now that the Grantland and “30 For 30” creator has 3.49 million people reading his every thought on Twitter, there are some repercussions from just bro’ing out and talkin’ what-ifs with the fellas in the man cave.
Like, say, Kevin Durant telling him to stop.
Durant’s exasperation is well-founded. For ESPN, Simmons has been harping on Oklahoma City’s 2012 trade of James Harden since, well, 2012. The thought of three MVP candidates coexisting on the same team, in Harden, Durant and Russell Westbrook, has been irking Simmons since Harden arrived in Houston and became the star he is today. (What if I told you GM Sam Presti let a sure-fire dynasty slip through his fingers? “Stealing His Own Thunder,” coming soon.)
Simmons’ latest rant about the ill-fated deal that landed Kevin Martin and Jeremy Lamb, two first-round picks and a second-round pick in exchange for a player with whom Presti couldn’t finagle a deal came Sunday afternoon, when an , still obsessing over the deal, ignited something in Simmons.
Yup, Kevin Durant is one of his reader🍃s, but not a very happy one.