San Antonio newspaper takes a shot at Kevin Durant, Oklahoma City Thunder (Photo)
By Josh Hill
The Oklahoma City Thunder are down a game to the San Antonio Spurs in the Western Conference Finals and they’ll be looking to turn their luck around in Game 2 on Wednesday night. But while the Thunder are reeling after an exhausting loss on Monday night, the Spurs aren’t letting up in any aspect of their complete domination of the Thunder and that extends to media coverage as well.
During the opening rounds of the playoffs, The Oklahoman took a shot at Kevin Durant for being unreliable, which was either a major misprint or an egregious error on the part of someone running the sports section. Either way, the whole thing was a high controversy which was only heightened when Kevin Durant won the MVP and his mother stuck up for him and fought a battle for him.
It was a pretty embarrassing moment for Thunder thanks largely to the fact that Durant being unreliable is untrue, but it’s a moment that the Spurs media is prodding as Game 2 approaches. The headline in the sports section of the San Antonio Express goes the other direction from where The Oklahoman went and supported the local superstar rather than bash him.
Newspaper shots fired from @SanAntonioEx to @TheOklahoman. @Monroe_SA @JMcDonald_SAEN @DarnellMayberry @BerryTramel pic.twitter.com/ydcFKgARiT
— Marc J. Spears (@MarcJSpears) May 21, 2014
Shot fired indeed.
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We saw this sort of tabloid clawing back in the first round series between the Brooklyn Nets and Toronto Raptors, but The Oklahoman and the San Antonio Express are far from being as catty the New York Post and Toronto Sun.
Still, this will either be great bulletin board material for the Thunder or it will further serve as a reminder that Tim Duncan seemingly never ages and is more reliable in the postseason than the MVP of the league.