Kevin Durant, attempting to put out the fire from his sensational “passing the torch” comment, went to Mark Medina of the East Bay Times to elaborate just before his Christmas day clash with Lebron James.
It’s my turn to be in there with [the NBA greats] and enjoy being one of the best players in the world. It wasn’t the fact that I took it from LeBron and he’s gone now. Obviously he’s still around.
He misused the “torch” metaphor, he’s conveniently ignoring the fact that he was “one of the best players” long before he went to the Bay, and I’m pretty sure it’s a little disrespectful to use the phrase “he’s still around” to describe a still-peaking LeBron James.