Sports Illustrated calls Durant's statement 'powerful' and needed

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A follow-up SI piece by Kristen Wong reprinted the full press-conference exchange, including the reporter's question, and characterized Durant's answer as a strong, timely defense of the league.

Sports Illustrated calls Durant's statement 'powerful' and needed — Sports Illustrated

“So a lot of that stuff, the politics they bring into sports nowadays, I understand the messaging behind what they trying to do, but a person like me who just strictly cares for the purity of the sport, I do not give a f--- about that.”

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1 outlet Kevin Durant Loves the WNBA, for Real. His Powerful Statement on the League’s Future Needed to Be Said.

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I used to play pickup with a woman who played college ball at a mid-major and I think is in her school’s hall of fame, though she was nowhere near WNBA caliber. She was the only two woman who ever played with that group, so of course we used a men’s ball. She shot the shit out of that thing. I always found that impressive, because I know for a…

Mender0fRoadsr/nba21h agoview on r/nba ↗
Yup that was Julie Vanloo, she's in the WNBA now (was mostly in EuroLeague up til 2024). And he went to one of her WNBA games last year

smashketballr/nba21h agoview on r/nba ↗
wtf are you on about. LeBron gives flowers to WNBA players, past and present, quite a bit.

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Turns out the hardest road was the one littered with Twitter arguments with strangers

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