I'd be remiss in starting in any different direction than with Kevin Durant, the superstar basketball player who took the liberty of calling me out in very, very disrespectful turns to be quite honest with you.

But it is what it is.

It involves Kevin Durant, as I said, star the Phoenix Suns.

Durant is reportedly tired of my criticism of his leadership in an article written in The Athletic.

In the article, he says, quote, I've been in the league for 18 years.

I've never seen Stephen A.e. at a practice or a film session or shoot round.

I've never seen him anywhere but on TV talking shit about players. He's a clown to me.

He's always been a clown. You can write that too, end quote. Wow, how testy we get. So that's

Kevin Durant speaking about me. And if you're wondering where this all comes from, before I even get into it,

let me first show you what I said less than two weeks ago during my daytime job,

first take on ESPN that apparently had Kevin Durant so riled up. Look at what I said,

ladies and gentlemen. When you talk about Kevin Durant, this is what we're not going to do. We're

not going to look at Kevin Durant and just measure him in terms of just his talent. It's what

ability you have to peel out of others. He's been relatively leaderless. He's been very, he's been

very lacking in inspiration in terms of peeling out from those around him whatever you can give him.

He'll show up.

If you said to me, it's a game seven, it's a game one, it's a game five.

I don't give a damn what it is.

Kevin Durant's going to show up and he's going to ball out.

But does he get the others around him to do it?

Not only does he not do it, he doesn't feel the level of responsibility I think he should feel in getting it out of it.

Needless to say, Kevin Durant wasn't going to take that lying down because obviously if he claps back at fans and everybody else and their grandmama, he certainly was going to clap back at me.

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