This week in Instagram, NBA edition:
Tuesday morning a self-described teenage “bold and controversial” basketball analyst who has been tagging the Warriors’ Kevin Durant finally broke through the fourth wall. A contention that Durant had playmaking and leadership deficiencies — unlike Stephen Curry and LeBron James — appeared to have been the catalyst for the resulting Direct Message snipefest.
“Bruh go sweep ya dorm room, u don’t know hoops. Stop tagging me in this trash. Middle school/knock off stephen a,” Durant wrote, referring to ESPN’s bombastic talking head Stephen A. Smith.
The teenager didn’t stop.
“You know it’s true that’s why your insecure (hindquarters) responded to me.