Kevin Durant Blasts NBA's Hateful Fan Culture After Team USA Storms To Paris Olympics Final

USA men's basketball team was staring towards a brink of an exit in the semi finals against Nikola Jokic led Serbia. Team USA were in a rut and they trailed by as many as 13 points going into fourth quarter. 

But a heroic performance by Steph Curry, Joel Embiid and Kevin Durant meant that Team USA overcame the deficit and advanced to the finals of Paris Olympics where they will face the host nation of France led by the NBA Rookie of the Year in 2024 Victor Wembanyama.  

As Team USA stormed to the finals, Kevin Durant blasted disrespectful Denver Nuggets fans on Social Media as he lamented at the hate filled fan culture that has recently overtaken NBA fans. 

Kevin Durant blasts the fan culture in NBA

As Team USA advanced past Serbia by knocking out 2024 NBA MVP award winner Nikola Jokic, a lot of Denver Nugget fans took to social media to defend their star player and berate the USA team.  

As the fans were crossing the line in their disrespect towards Team USA, Kevin Durant decided to step in and slam these fans and blasted the fan culture in the league.

“Lets talk about the fan culture that’s been created recently. A lot of huge egos who believe they are the reason for the advancement of a sport. ALOT of idol worship, a lot of hate and division based off wins and losses, a lot of disrespect of the work being put in by these incredible athletes,” wrote Kevin Durant in reply to a fan comment on X. 

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Kevin Durant further said that all these people who berate athletes are those who have never come close to becoming a top athlete and all they know is how to talk down on people. 

“Mostly by people who don’t know what it takes to be good at anything besides talking…go do something and get out the way,” said Kevin Durant. 

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USA guns for Gold 

Team USA led by the likes of LeBron James, Steph Curry and Kevin Durant will face off against Victor Wembanyama led France in the men's basketball final at Paris Olympics.

The current crop of USA players have been lauded to be even better than the iconic 92' Dream Team. But if they want to warrant these claims then USA will have to beat France in the Gold Medal match. 

France will form a really tough opponent for USA with the likes of Wemby and Rudy Gobert. However, there remains no doubt that USA will be entering the contest as favourites.