While his recent play has garnered largely-positive reactions, you can be sure as hell that Kevin Durant pays more attention to those who continue to criticize it.
“KD is being too passive. He’s a scorer, for Pete’s sake. He should just keep shooting the ball!”
Against the Denver Nuggets, in only 21 minutes of play time that was cut short due to another unfortunate incident with a referee, Durant scored 21 points on a 9-of-13 shooting clip (69.2 percent) and a 2-of-5 clip from behind the arc (40 percent).
Seven of those 21 points came from earth-shattering dunks that brought energy and excitement to the team and the rest of Oracle Arena.