Fansided

The definitive Oklahoma City Thunder schadenfreude rankings

By Bryan Toporek

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2. Kevin Durant

Kevin Durant can deny it all he wants, but it’s clear he left the Thunder in 2016 partially due to Westbrook’s ball-hogging ways.

On Monday, he liked an Instagram post saying Westbrook was the problem with the Thunder. (And he didn’t even do it from a burner account this time!)

He later told ESPN.com’s Chris Haynes that he accidentally liked the comment, saying “No story here,” but c’mon, KD. You actually expect us to believe that?

Hell, Howard Beck of Bleacher Report confirmed nearly two years ago that Durant felt this way about Westbrook’s style of play.

“Ultimately, he got frustrated and felt that [the Thunder] had plateaued,” a person with knowledge of Durant’s free-agent thought process told Beck. “[Billy Donovan] came in, and he still had the same issues that he had with Russ under Scotty [Brooks]. The offense didn’t change much. He still had to take a ton of contested shots every game; and that’s when he had the ball at all.”

Seeing Westbrook jack up nearly 20 shots per game despite shooting a paltry 36.7 percent from the field in this series against Utah has to be one giant “I TOLD YOU SO!” for Durant.

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