Kevin Durant has responded to Charles Barkley’s claim that he needs to be a “bus driver” for a championship team to earn respect from “old chiefs”.
The Golden State Warriors are back as NBA champions, which means Kevin Durant will be debated to the point of nausea. why? Because he left the Warriors in 2019 to join the Brooklyn Nets with Kyrie Irving, and they haven’t yet won an NBA title, let alone made it to the finals.
Last Friday, Inside the NBA analyst Charles Barkley appeared on ESPN’s Get Up and expressed his opinion that Durant would not earn the respect of “old chiefs,” unless he was the “bus driver” for the championship team.
Durant discovered the clip, which was shared after New Orleans Pelicans guard C.J. McCollum gave his opinion on it, and responded to Barkley’s opinion.
Kevin Durant responds to starring Charles Barkley
Durant joined the Warriors in the summer of 2016 after spending the start of his career with the Seattle Supersonics/Oklahoma City Thunder. The move was ridiculed, who felt Durant was jumping on the bandwagon for the NBA Championship.
However, in the team’s three trips to the NBA Finals, they won two of them and Durant was named the Finals MVP in each of their series wins. This is McCollum’s argument, saying that Durant was the “bus driver” for those Warriors teams, particularly in the Finals.
After the 2019 finals, Durant signed with the Nets. He missed the first year of his contract as he recovered from a ruptured Achilles tendon. The following season, the Nets reached the Eastern Conference semi-finals, but lost in seven games to the eventual NBA champions at the Milwaukee Bucks. Then last season, the Boston Celtics swept the nets in the opening round.
Barkley voiced his opinion on Durant, and the Nets star offered his rebuttal on Twitter.
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