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You know, basketball is not a democracy.

We cannot vote where somebody will sign.

If we could, Kevin Durant would have never gone to the warriors to begin with.

But he did, and the haters were upset.

Of course, haters can't vote where somebody will sign,

but they can still make their voices heard.

Why would you sign with a team that you almost beat?

Why would you join the greatest regular season team of all time?

You're soft, you're a snake, an asterisk on all your children turns out for the

world's most sensitive superstar words hurt as much as sticks and stones his

Achilles heel was his sensitivity and also his Achilles heel.

He thought he'd be happy if he won a title he won two.

He thought he'd be vindicated, lauded as valuable,

when he won a finals MVP, and he did that twice. But if you needle thin skin long enough,

you'll draw blood. Durant won, but he wasn't happy. He had the trophies he coveted but not the

respect he thought he deserved.

You can turn off comments on your Instagram, but that will only address the symptom and not the

disease.

So what did he do?

He left.

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