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So the thing that caught my attention today,

the thing that is the most compelling,

the thing that stands out the most,

my good friend, Kevin Durant.

That's right.

This Kevin Durant guy, what a great gift Kevin Durant is.

Now, he is talking, and yet again, we are listening, and and we're responding and he spilled his guts out

on a number of different issues that are affecting all of us how do we sleep we don't we

don't sleep at night we're overnight people but the issues of the day in the world of basketball

now the very i think it's fair to say, temperamental Golden State Warrior Star, speaking up about the king, as in King James.

Now, if you didn't hear about this, I don't know where you've been in like some kind of time war, maybe you live in a shoebox.

It's possible.

It's absolutely possible.

But the one that really has the legs here is all about what Durant had to say about King James.

And so I wanted to get into that.

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