Saturday, August 11th, 2012 at 12:42 pm  |  110 responses

Kevin Durant on Dwight Howard Trade: ‘I Really Don’t Care’


by Ryne Nelson / @slaman10

After helping Team USA crush Argentina—and move into Sunday’s Gold-medal game—Kevin Durant didn’t have much to say about another Dream Team, the one being assembled in L.A.

Sitting at the post-game interview room in London, KD was asked about his thoughts on the blockbuster Dwight Howard trade. How will the Thunder match-up against the Lakers? How can four future Hall of Famers be stopped? What was he thinking?

“I really don’t care,” Durant said.

As expected, Durant simply is shrugging his shoulders at the trade. The Thunder have a serious challenger in the West. But that won’t shake KD.

The Thunder are still champs in the West. Durant is still the greatest scorer in basketball. Bring on the challengers.

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  • pposse

    westbrook iq might not be the greatest, and your right he is not on bron bron’s level, but to think that he can’t change his game or fix his weaknesses is near sighted., Also, scoring pg’s have just as much success if not more when it comes to winning in the nba. What is the last team that even had a great PG play in the NBA finals who fit the traditional pg role? Don’t give me Jason Kidd from 2011 either, he was clearly a diminished player at that point and it was JJ Barea (a score first pg) that did most of the damage at the pg spot during the finals and thruout that playoff run. I can name a bunch of score first pg’s that have gotten to the ECF WCF and Finals in the past millenium. Rose, Westbrook, Parker, Billups are their names. And you got Kidd, Paul, Williams, Rondo, and Nash as your traditional pg’s with just as much wins. Billups and Parker have rings, and what do u know they were the finals MVP’s of their respective teams too at one point. Only J Kidd (old and not the same player in the 90′s/ early millenium) and Rondo (with a stacked unit, and when he was really young and not considered a great pg) have won rings. Score first pg’s work in this league, hence the thunders reg season record and success in the playoffs…they would NOT be better off with cp or derron williams…with rose they would be better thats it.

  • Pete Rubens

    You all do realize that Kendrick Perkins, the proclaimed Dwight stopper, will now have to guard the pick & roll, which he’s HORRIBLE at, with Howard (The most athletic center & best pick & roll center in the league) & Steve Nash (best pick & roll PG not named Chris Paul) now… right? & It’ll be Dwight hedging out on those Russell Westbrook & James Harden screens instead of the slow footed Bynum… right? Or do you all get your basketball expertise from NBA 2K? Dwight’s presence will also allow Kobe Bryant, 9-time All-NBA performer & Ron Artest, former defesenive player of the year, to pressure the perimeter & make OKC’s jump shots a lot tougher knowing Howard will be there to erase their mistakes. It’s an upgrade, deal with it.

  • http://www.slamonline.com Chinese Oppenheimer

    Pposse, you are right about a lot except those teams would definitely be better with CP and Deron. Rose and Westbrook wouldn’t have half the success with the bum teams the other two played for. On the other hand, if you place Deron or CP around the talent Rose has, they have a better shot at the Finals. Rose was out and his team still won without him. No team Deron or Paul has played for can say that.

  • pposse

    Oppenheimer, i don’t recall the bulls beating the sixers in the playoffs. In fact, most were saying the bulls would handle that team 4-0 or 4-1 at the very best. D Rose filled a void on the chicago bulls being that he can actually score (who on the bulls is the go to guy for scoring other than rose?), he can create his own shot, and he will give up the ball to the open man wen need be. Since D rose is the better scorer than both williams and cp, how in the world would they have made the bulls better? The thunder have three legit scorers, so ic an see you pt when talking about the thunder..however, westbrook is the ‘head of the snake’ as their coach once said, and if it aint broke dont try and fix it

  • Brad09

    Seems like everyone is into their own opinions. How about looking at facts for a change. Someone tried to make the argument that lebron was more of a defense force because he was more versatile? really in the early 2000s rashard lewis was a more versatile player but shaq was still better. Versatility only means so much. Last time i check lebron dosent have a defensive player of the year, dwight has a few. Whoever said the lakers still have no one to guard durant and westbrook is correct. However Dwight Howard will protect the rim now, which means westbrook will be challenged at the rim early and often. and westbrook has to guard a real basketball player now. LA vs OKC should be a great rivalry. And to the joke that said kevin durant was more of a shooter than a pure scorer? ya because shooters win 3 scoring titles by the time there 24. No wait reggie and ray are still looking for their 1st.

  • The_Skinny

    Adding to the facts:

    This is going to be a long season and this time teams are going to be more prepared for other.

    Both teams are contenders, only one team addressed its weaknesses, enough to win a title and that is the Lakers. By that I mean, if by chance the Thunder were to get past the Lakers, they will NOT beat the Heat! The Lakers is built to win a title.

    A strong key addition to the Lakers is Steve Nash! If you do not think that a back to back MVP PG makes much of a difference, well, the Clippers got CP3 and he does not have that type of resume and he made them into a perennial Playoffs team. How much more can Steve Nash do for the Lakers with the ball in his hands, making the entire team much better!

    The focus seems to be centered around the Thunder’s Big three. The Lakers now have a Fantastic Four and the legitimate bench that includes an All-Star (as our Sixth Man of the Year prospect) and a few nice key additions!

    Same dog, but new tricks. Another thing that is going to be addressed is the coaching. It seems as though no one is taking that into consideration. The new offense have elements of the triangle for one. Any everyone knows how the last five titles were won by the Lakers, the triangle was used to perfection. It seems to me that the coach will be play to everyone’s strengths. To me, the Lakers is not a little better, but instead much, much better. Someone posted that the Lakers will loose to Thunder in six. You only need the same and some adjustments to loose in six. The Lakers made major adjustments, so it is expected that the outcome will be drastically different.

    Finally, as it does not matter to KD the improvements the Lakers has made, so it does not matter what he thinks! The Lakers will handle their business effectively despite the opponent!

  • esonba

    LA swapped out one big man with problems for another big man with a whole nother set of problems. LA needed to get higher level players on the bench and another good shooting gaurd which they didnt do too much. Nash still doesnt play D and Kobe last i saw still doesnt like to pass. The media has blown this wayyy out of proportion. Russell will run nash raggid by the end of a series and Kobe will be matched if not surpassed point by point from KD. D12 poses a problem in the paint as did Bynum but some people say bynum better than D12 and vice versa. Media wanna say that the new old big 3 of Old Nash and Old Kobe and extremely silly D12 is gonna be enough but in real life it wont be. San antonio is still a threat to the West crown and their Defense super nasty with good perimeter shooting. I personally dont see LA making it to the Western conference finals just because of Nash and D12. plus we back to a full season so who knows if Kobe and nash will even remain healthy that long. I see either OKC or Spurs coming out the West with a Miami Heat repeat. They not only won it all last year but they got way better with the addition of their shooters. they may be the biggest monstas we eva seen in a long long time. Heat nation stand up

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  • Bryant24

    I didn’t know you could compare Howard to KD, hmmm? Andd I like the Lakers because of Kobe Bryant, not because the “media” brainwashed this teenage girl to like em. Some of us jus actually like the game.

  • Bryant24

    Andd the Heat will not be winning that championship this year, that’s a promise.

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