Kevin Durant hates people joking about ‘You the real MVP’
By Sam Richmond
Oklahoma City Thunder star Kevin Durant said Wednesday that those who make “You the real MVP” jokes have “no morals.”
Kevin Durant’s speech after winning the 2013-14 NBA MVP was one of the most powerful MVP speeches we’ve seen in recent memory.
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However, these days, Durant’s MVP speech is known more for creating an internet meme than anything else. The meme is centered around Durant saying of his mom, “You the real MVP” in reference to all she had done for him growing up.
In an interview with GQ, Durant revealed that the popular meme bothers him and that he considers those who joke about the line immoral.
"You the real MVP. People repeating it in awe at work the next day. And then in a week, less than a week, people repeating it with heretic glee, joking about it even. It becomes a punch line, something guys on Reddit say to one another. A virtual high five over a comic Vine. You the real MVP, person who actually pays for Netflix.“I was like, man, that was a real emotional moment for me, and you making a joke about it! Like:Damn. Y’all don’t really believe in shit. You don’t have no morals or nothing. You don’t care about nothing but just making fun.”How are you supposed to act in the world, when people feel entitled even to a moment like that?“I was serious as hell saying that, you know what I’m saying?”"
It’s easy to see where Durant is coming from. That speech, and specifically him getting to thank to his mom, obviously meant a lot to him and the fact that many have completely lost sight of that has to be annoying for him.
It’s good to see Durant say that he’s over such anger; however, it’s unlikely we’ll ever see Durant as vulnerable as we has during that MVP speech again, as he knows just how quickly his true emotions can be used to make jokes. Perhaps that’s how Durant’s recent outburst towards the media came to be; he simply feels as if his words will get twisted these days.
Durant is averaging 25.9 points (51.7 percent shooting from the field, 40.5 percent shooting from beyond the arc), 6.6 rebounds and 4.0 assists per game this season. The Thunder are currently 28-25, just half a game behind the Phoenix Suns for the eighth seed in the Western Conference.