Kevin Durant doesn’t care that you don’t like blowouts (Video)

Kevin Durant has an NBA Finals to win. While close games are always more fun for the fans, Durant is indifferent to the surge in blowout playoff games.

With the Golden State Warriors already up 3-0 on the San Antonio Spurs in the 2017 Western Conference Finals, it seems increasingly likely that the Warriors will reach their third straight NBA Finals.

While a third straight meeting between the Warriors and the Cleveland Cavaliers seems inevitable, this will be the first time in five years that small forward Kevin Durant will be playing in an NBA Finals. The only time in his 10-year NBA career that he has reached the Finals was as a member of the 2011-12 Oklahoma City Thunder. Oklahoma City lost to LeBron James’ Miami Heat in five games.

After Golden State beat San Antonio 120-108 on Saturday night, Durant represented his team at the podium for the post-game interviews. When asked about his feelings about their being so many blowouts in the 2017 NBA Playoffs, Durant had a lot to say about that issue.

While Durant does understand that the fans do want to see closer games, he would end his point by stating, “if you don’t like it, don’t watch it.” It’s a fair point, as the Warriors didn’t exactly blow out the Spurs in Game 3.

Sure, they were in the lead for most of the game, but was nothing like the debacle in Game 2 of the 2017 Eastern Conference Finals between the Cavaliers and the Boston Celtics. James’ Cavaliers went up by as many as 50 points on the road in Boston. It was the ugliest playoff loss in the history of the proud Celtics franchise.

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Durant is right about his indifference to how fans feel about blowouts. It is his job to win basketball games when the lights are the brightest. Though the NBA is a popular form of entertainment, it is also sport.