Kevin Durant saw latest NBA All-Star Game backlash as proof people just like complaining
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The fallout from the latest disaster that was the 2025 NBA All-Star Game continues.
My pal Mike Sykes wrote about how Sunday's mini-tournament strangely seemed like it was about everything but the basketball. Reigning NBA MVP Nikola Jokic said the league should probably focus its energy elsewhere after another dud of an event. Meanwhile, other league superstars like Shai Gilgeous-Alexander were kinda baffled by the egregious break in the middle of the final game.
We can now throw Kevin Durant's thoughts into this mix.
On Monday afternoon, the legendary Phoenix Suns scorer noticed all the backlash from the latest All-Star Game madness and came to a pretty reasonable conclusion on his X account. Per Durant, sometimes, people just like to complain about the NBA rather than actively watch it.
As a result, Durant said the league would perhaps simply be better off instituting a midseason break that had no additional fanfare because everyone seems so "miserable" this time of year.
While this in no way excuses the league's and TNT's atrocious presentation of Sunday's All-Star proceedings, I do find it otherwise hard to disagree with Durant. I'm not sure what the NBA could have done to genuinely make its fans happy. It's the nature of the online world we live in.
As a diehard NBA fan, I'm fairly certain folks would've poked holes in whatever product was delivered to them.
Fair Criticism
Maybe KD is right and fans just want something to complain about.
But we had Mike Sykes in San Francisco and his criticism was more than fair.
Shootaround
— Chris Paul was so mad after the Spurs were hilariously disqualified from the NBA Skills Challenge
— Adam Silver revealed why the Stephen Curry and Sabrina Ionescu 3-point contest was canceled
— Mac McClung jumped over a Kia during the NBA Dunk Contest in an awesome tribute to Blake Griffin
— Nikola Jokic downplayed a big-man rivalry with Karl-Anthony Towns with the coldest analogy