I mean... Durant isn't wrong.. And these players have a lot of free time, is it wrong to put a kid is their place?
As for whether other great players would have done it, there was no social media back then, I can only imagine the trouble some of those guys would've got themselves in. It takes more discipline now to be a star than it did then. So much extra crap that they have to deal with.
its not wrong for Durant, a 30 year old role model to children, to be calling a child a poor mans Stephen a smith? How is that leadership professional or remotely mature? Even if Durant was 18 it wouldn’t be excusable. At his current age it’s pathetic
And was the kid acting like a poor man's Stephen A Smith? Yes...
Social Media allows the worst of people and it allows idiotic opinions to be broadcast direct to these individuals like Durant. There really is no parallel to the past or to the average man or woman. There is little repercussion for people when they say dumb or insulting stuff. So I do have sympathy with those guys when they eventually respond.
Durant addresses it directly, others ignore it, others like Crowder write a post all in caps subtly addressing how they've been dissed. There isn't a right or wrong way because if we're honest we don't understand the psychology of it all yet.
If a kid was mouthing off courtside at a player then there are obvious repercussions, the player stares them down after a bucket, security escorts them out, a parent admonishes them. All seen as acceptable responses. But in social media the only "accepted" response so far is to be the bigger man and ignore it. That's no repercussion for the offender. Hence why I'm OK with this
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