Charles Barkley Was TOTALLY Right About Kevin Durant, BUT No One Paid Attention. 

Guys in the league have crazy longevity compared to just a few decades ago, but being 35+ and not accepting your spot as maybe the 2nd option only hurts your chance of winning.

Better scorers at Forward Position: Just off the top of my hat Bird & Nowitzki for sure. Never forget Dirk played KD in his title run and straight up embaressed him. KD is great not Top 10 but Top 25 for sure and a great 1 on 1 guy however the Celtics showed that it is quite possible to deal with him if you defend him properly and use your team.

Let's just tell it like it is: KD is selfish and insecure. Maybe not as much as Lebron, but definitely. These two personality traits go hand in hand, and KD has them in spades.

Remember guys this is just a video of opinions. KD is a great in his own right he is talented.

I’m trying to sympathise with him but being only the second or third or fourth best player of your generation (and top 15 of all time) is really a first world problem as the expression goes

73-9? He's not BATMAN OR ROBIN more like Alfred!

You cannot forgive his gs move 😂😂😂 nothing he does moving forward will outweigh that move

Every year that Durant was with the Warriors, Curry was still the team's leading scorer.

😂 No way KD is top 10 of all time. If that’s on your list, throw it in the trash

Bro that "for KD he thinks that means get going to a new team" fucked me up lol damn that was funny. Making some food and heard that. Had to laugh a little bit.

Knicks really dodged a bullet these 2 fools😅

Barkley should know, winning a championship is hard. People need to get over KD leaving San Francisco and more on with their lives.

K.D is a phenomenal basketball player without a question of a doubt. Like how he portrayed himself, he truly is an easy bucket sniper especially in today's nba league with its rules. Yes, he played major role for the 2 championships that the GSW won with him. He is one of the top nba players of all time easily but as far him being the one of the Goats, one of the legends, one of the true champions is absolutely far fetched. First, he joined the best recording breaking team in NBA history to win rings. He chose the easiest way out that the NBA has ever had to win rings. Not to forget it was the same team whom his OKC fumbled their 3-1 lead in the prior season. Second, instead of sticking out with the team and trying to figure out ways to make the team better, he point fingers and blamed others whether it's teammates, staff and in this case even coaches and wanted them out indefinitely which he has done in more than one occasions. Despite having all those superstars but exiting 1st round in embarrassing fashion but still denying or not owning up to it shows his mentality side of the game. These kinds of traits are what has been preventing him being included in the discussion of NBA top GOAT status alongside the likes of MJ, Lebron, etc. As an individual, he is phenomenal but as a team player, *not so much* This is a team sport and there is also a mentality side to this game off the courts which i believe K.D does not excel unlike how he does on the court.

Great player. All time great talent no doubt but like this generation can’t take constructive criticism without feeling the need to clap back. Everyone that has advice is not a hater. Learning is a daily activity.

Curry is NOT the best PG in history. He’s probably the best SHOOTING/SCORING PG in history, but that’s far from being the best PG ever. He’s actually a shooting guard. And there’s no way in HELL Durant is Top 15 all time. Lucky to be considered Top 50.

KD has had one hell of a career that thousands of others who played in the NBA would absolutely love to have. Injuries are a part of the problem and every other player mentioned in the video has lost a season or two because of injuries and KD was never the GM of any of the teams he played with so im not sure how he"picked" all of his teammates. Finally as a Suns fan, freaking Barkley screwed up several times and blew his chances at getting a ring himself as the "driver" on the same team KD is on right now. So if Phoenix is successful this season and wins the chip, the "rider" will have done what the "driver" failed to do.

KD's a great scoring weapon, but he's missing important leadership intangibles.

Look warriors don't win those two championship without KD PERIOD,i didn't like that he join Golden S. Weak move,but he was the main reason they won both championship nor Curry,lets keep it a buck

That sounds like he took a play book from lebron James

KD is one of the greats but will never be one of the greatest.

"tired of second".....that is why he has an aesterick next to his warrior chsip as do the rest of the warriors because none of todays players want to EARN a championship always trying to create super teams as if you are at a pickup game ....you are guilty of this too charles but you went 0-3 trying (sixers, rockets, suns)...that is why we should really appreciate the Nuggets cship team that took several years to build from within

Kd is having a great season on both sides of the ball! Funny this video comes after they loose to warriors! This is so irrelevant!

Chuck - "He sensitive Cindy..."

But the Warriors probably couldn't have beaten my team, the Cavs, without Durant, at least not in 2017 when Kyrie was still there.

5:27 I don't like Harden since I'm a Houstonian and hate the way he bails out on all his teams when the going gets tough, but blaming Harden only for the Nets failure is ridiculous. Did you forget that other guy who didn't play the majority of the season? Yeah, remember that guy that believes the Earth is flat? His name is Kyrie Irving and is the only other player that I would never want on my team other than Harden since he's infamous for going MIA and missing a ton of games for stupid political reasons. TBH, I don't really like Kyrie, Harden, nor Durant despite the fact that he went to my alma mater, because they are all spoiled brats.

NEWS FLASH!! LeBron James got impatient left Cleveland as the "Bus Driver" in 2010, then joined the Coattails of Dwayne Wade, Chris Bosch, and Ray Allen in Miami, who had already won a Championship back in 2006. So, Kevin Durant is not the only "Bus Rider".

and that is the reason kd and every one who leaves their first nba team would NEVER be in the goat conversation...(the same with leflop)

You did KD dirty saying JT is his young self 🤦🏻‍♂️

Like in showbiz, Durant is the lead actor in the movie, the face of it, paid well for it, carry it but never directs it.

KD's destiny in the league will always be a second option. being a 1st option doesn't work if your trying to win a championship. he has been chasing lebron his whole career then he though he could go to GS and be a leader that is stephs team. the nets was main Kyries team in my opinion. and pheonix will always be bookers team. he is yet to be on a team where he is "the guy" being in pheonix as a second option suits him and he should be happy with that. i think booker has a better chance to show up as a leader more than KD

Durant had another top 75 player for years. Made 1 Finals. Not saying either team would've beat them but what if Kawhi Leonard didn't get hurt in Game 1 of 2017 WCF? They were blowing the Warriors out in the 3rd quarter. 2018 WCF the Rockets were up 3-2 before Paul got hurt. Thats why 2019 when KD got hurt, i didnt want to hear it since they benefitted mightily the 2 previous seasons from injuries

Who is a better scorer from the forward position? Larry Bird. That was easy. He was the bus driver. Back to back to back MVP when the league had Magic Johnson, Charles Barkley, Hakeem Olajawon, Dominique Wilkins, David Robinson, Michael Jordan, Kareem Abdul Jabbar and Isaiah Thomas.

Dude was getting 30+ shot attempts in the playoffs with Russ. He should never have left OKC and I think he would have got at least one chip there.

I know Charles isn't talking?!! He went from team to team towards the end of career, trying to win a 💍🤦🏾‍♂️

Charles Barkley is the WORST person to push the narrative that KD's a bus rider. The Rockets went through Charles TWICE and the 2nd time Charles blew a 3-1 lead. They won a title both times. Charles joined them a season later. And you cant be a bus rider while being a FMVP twice.

The league is as real as prowrestling, why should KD pretend?

KD is top 10 or top 15 of all-time ? What !

Durant=Scottie Pippen.

Anybody with me? I'm getting on the bus. KD to the Thunder; I'm getting on the bus? Anybody with me? KD to the Warriors. Anybody with me. I'm getting on the bus? KD to the Nets. I'm getting on the bus? KD to the ... where's the next stop? Nobody knows. Basketball in the head of Kevin Durant. What's in it? In times of trouble, I remember the classic Temptation song: "A BALL of CONFUSION." No wife, no kids, no family. After all these years, just a luggage bag and some bus tickets for the man who would be king. It's not easy being Kevin, that's for sure.

I said this before nobody in today's NBA is the top 50 player of all time Kevin Durant might be a top 10 15 player of this era but this era sucks the NBA this era sucks

Well, if the NBA would quit letting LeBron get away with crying and cheating and giving him everything, Kevin would have beatin lbjay in the championship game but the referees and nba gave LeBron everything over Kevin Durant? And Charles Barkley switched teams two times to win a championship so he needs to shhhh. And what everybody have seemed to have forgotten clay green and curry. Ask Kevin to come play with them. They told Kevin Durant we cannot beat LeBron James without you they asked him and Kevin is a two time champ and mvp and he earned it . He’s just as good as LeBron James no less but a better score. And he is not top 10 what is this guy talking about? He’s right up there with the best top three period!!!

KD, if you can read this ........ Come to New York, win one title in New York on the New. York. Knicks. 1 title. Your name will be praised forever as the best to ever do it. But it has to be New York!

Is weird cuz , it started with lbj, James harden ,kyrie ,kd , the best players in the league all where hard to work with ...

Its funny, because bus drivers can drive but doesn't mean they will take you to a championship. If that bus doesn't have the right pieces you can drive all you want.

Well he isn't what you would call a bus driver, but does it really matter? This guy made many people enjoy watching him play, and many children start playing basketball. Truly one of a kind tall forward who can score any way you want him to. So what if he never enters a goat discussion. There is only so many people in NBA history who ever did enter. He still had himself a career that will surely have him remembered in years to come.

I am a KD fan, but he is not on my top 15, he barely made it in my top 20, but he is still a good player. he is just not in a Goat level, his only chip is on GSW, thats it, he team up with Kyrie, Harden and now with Booker, no one can argue that he dont have help during his carrier coz pretty much all the teams hes been with are stacked, but he still falls, he will be a legend some day. but not on a top tier.

KD fans are just as sensitive as KD is and sound just as butthurt

The only time Kd had played in a system style offense aka offshoot of the triangle offense with high end players he won . In Brooklyn what was the problem Steve Nash had no system for them Think about that squad all those guys played system ball 🏀. I would have hired a coach with a system conducent to the talent I had while I developed Steve Nash Steph - Kyrie Clay - harden Kd - as himself kD Green - Blake Griffin DeAndre Jordan Tell me what was missing coaching A system Kyrie - duke Kd - Texas James harden - Arizona state College basketball is built on systems Wherever KD has played he has played in a system Again you have a big 3 in Phoenix what system do they run

He just not built that way

Its a shame that you have Larry Johnson, Danny Manning, Dennis Rodman and Derrick Coleman when you are talking about better scoring forwards..when none of them were better scorers than Bernard King..Rodman as a scorer really????? he never average more than 10 pts a game and thats when he was in Detroit

It amazes me how if someone who everyone listens to says something. Everybody runs with it! He AIN'T IT! We've already seen it. People today for some reason love lies!

Dumbest title ever. Literally the first thing everyone thinks of if you’re not a KD Stan.

I believe Larry Bird would be as good a shooter as Durant. And the game is higher scoring now. Bird's PPG isn't quite as high, but he did more work with assists and rebounding.

His playmaking ability is gone since hes lost a step so now he is just a 7`` jump shooter. His free throw attempts have been cut in half almost since his prime OKC years because he does not drive to the basket.

Place KD in a situation with talent and a coach he will win you a ship Imagine him with popovich I'm just saying

If KD had any balls he would have left OKC and gone to San Antonio.

He is a rider, but a very important one. Had he not been hurt in the Finals 5 years ago, the Dubs would have one more title. I do hope he can be the difference that finally brings a championship to Phoenix. Something Charles choked on.

That is not even a question ofcourse KD is not that kind of a guy he is not that guy he is a pull up jump shooter and that is all he is and yeah he is great at that but that doesn't make you to 20 all time

If KD was smart, he'd have just re-signed with the Warriors and kept winning championships.

Charles AGAINST IN WARRIORS! IT'S WRONG. KD IS A RIDER NOT A BUS DRIVER!

6:15 ahmmm... Tim Duncan

Many people claimed the game plan was formed according to Steph not kd

He passing the ball like a point guard. They had GP3 guarding him in the post, passing it out

I think this is erroneous, to say Durant cannot be the driver of the bus leading to championship. A lot of things can happen or should happen also to get a ring. Barkley is just a bitter old man who failed on his turn as a bus driver and rider also. GSW without Durant during their games vs Lebron's will be nothing more than ordinary. :Barkley : KG you are borderline Hall of famer, KG : Barkley you are almost a champion

Kevin Durant is a great talent and player but has no shown no leadership qualities.

Put context behind your points, the video is entertaining and follows the national narrative tho. Also funny right after a loss.

Amazing player, he doesn’t have that dog in him like Kobe, MJ. Not everyone has that inner killer, psychopathic winning mentality. Some players have it for a season or two, some their whole career, some need teammates with it. No knock on his skill, throughout his career you can put him on a court and he’s argument for best player on the court… pretty much any court. Steph Curry is all smiles, but he’s a stone cold killer.

Should've not given up on OKC.

I mean what does he want out of life? He earned the right to go to Golden State by arguably being the best player on Earth. He wasn't bus riding....how many people would have been given that spot? Maybe just him. He should have taken that opportunity to evolve his game. When you don't have to carry the team every night you can let injuries heal, you can try different practice techniques, you can experiment with your mental prep, your fitness routine. His fragile ego torpedoed his career. Just like Kerr said, Jordan evolved. KD hasn't.

I personally think KD is a great player , but sometimes it’s better to be a great team player than searching for all the personal accolades. You’re blessed with talent great enough to play on the NBA stage making boat loads of money … enjoy the ride

The problem with people is they think being a leader is about controlling people and telling them what to do. The problem also with most of these players not just KD they aren’t good leaders because they worry to much about themselves and aren’t consistent with their character and decisions. Players nowadays care about themselves (Brand) than the success of the team most of the time.

KD avg 35 &11 in The Finals! Back to Back MVP.. This shit makes no sense

First of all. The artists were 73-3. They could not beat LB and Kyrie. They needed Durant. They called KD. KD didn’t call them. This bus driver description is incorrect.

What Barkley and this narrator are missing is that Steph and the Warriors never beat Lebron's Cavs team when they were at full strength, in a 7 game finals series without KD. They only time they beat Lebron and the Cavs in the finals, 73 regular season wins or not without KD was the year Kyrie Irving and KLove missed nearly the entire series with injuries. You can debate that who was the bus driver and who was the rider garbage, but they won playing together as a team and neither KD or Steph would have beat the Cavs at full strength without the other.

11:04 you wouldn't know it if you let Jordan fans tell the story 😭😭

He is a Bus rider not a Bus driver like Barkley said. He is always get off the bus and looking for a new one.

riding by example 🎉

Love you, Kev…don’t worry abt all the BS

I’m sure you probably put the “but nobody listened” as click bait 😅

No. People did pay attention and he got backlash for it

As a Suns fan im missing Mikael Bridges & Cam Johnson. KD is soft and wont get them to the promised land.

The only person that is a forward that could be consider a better scorer is LeBron. Just because the ppg is the same and he has more all time points. But he is a better shooter for sure

No I can't agree with that because Kevin Durant average the same many shots he did when he was with OKC so I can't see where his role decrease or increase then if this your argument him and LeBron the same but the difference will be LeBron asked to go to Miami and Golden State begged KD to come to Golden State

Those Warriors teams would have won with or without KD. Heck, I could have joined the Warriors, and they still would have won!

It is absolutely better to have comments,or any advices,, to whom has a championship,,.than Barkley's hasn't...

3:16 "... those of you who argue that Steph that curryed to 2 rings by kevin durant..."" I see what u did there my boy 😅

he wasn't shotgun for the warriors chips, but everything looks shacky

Nobody still paying him no mind. Y’all know Kevin is everything that is why yall keep naming him in videos for views ..yall are fans

@02:30 about Steph, he is NOT really that good playing without the ball, as a PG, because he does NOT get many assists. As a PG, he should, and could, be getting many more assists per game. At least 8 assists per game. (I love Curry, he is greatest 3-point shooter. But considering he only averages low 20's at his best, in PPG, he could be dishing out many more assists per game. Especially when playing with epic shooters such as KD and Klay.) Although in 2014-2015 he did get 7 APG.

Greatest Bus Rider of All Time

he really is a GSW Bus Rider. If Charles joined MJ or Bird or the Pistons "EARLY" on his career, idiotic fans wont clown him for not having 1. GSW could have the easiest and lightest 3-peat if not for injury.

Why y'all give this okie hypocrite so much credit I don't know.He was a rider too chasing rings Houston and phoenix suns and he still ended up ringless😮

People comparing KD to Larry Bird need to stop. Larry Bird would ABUSE HIM.

You and Barkley are wrong. One might be lazy thinker to say these nonsense. 1. Team sport each player does it role. Narrative "carry a team" is ridicilous. 2. Ok let assume there is such thing " carry a team". KD carried usa team in 2010 2016 and 2022 and will carry them in 2024(yes with Lebron and curry). Nothing new, he has been carrying steph since 2010. Still in this bs "carrying a team" who carried okc to until now the only one nba final ? With 22 or 23 years old to face a miami team with way experienced player and lebron ducked KD smoke while was guarding him though out the series. 4. KD never asked warriors he want to play with them. Draymond said it, he did beg kd to join then and KD said time and time again okc "enimies" usa Spurs with Duncan manu kawhi and tony, not warriors. 5. If KD was the "rider" no way in this world warriors beat cavs. Thats why he was mvp. In the course of the second final mvp, first game in cavs arena, he took "backseat" and let Curry be the first "killer" Curry , Curry failed he tried Klay, Klay failed too. He decided to take back and the rest is history. Year after with all drama he tried to come back from an injury to help warriors against raptors he tore achilles... Came back from Achilles lost to Bucks. which ended up winning all. Next year with all kyrie harden drama, got swept by celtics. Celtics that went to the finals. Last year, lost to Nuggets. Nuggets won it all.... Capisci ? or capisci niente? Stop these bs narrative go study the game and appreciate these guys if you really like basketball and practice it.

He learned from King James lol. If the Team can't help Me win I will leave for greener pastures. Like LG, me me, I want!!! Can't win championships it must be management, players, coaches, and maybe the fans fault. Never mind.

A good player…ROLE PLAYER….NEVER A LEADER….

No everyone agreed with Barkely the moment he said it

Kd pulled the LeBron card wen LeBron ran to south beach. Kd ran to San Francisco thats the new era nba and the dudes who build there franchise Steph, klay, Green media talks about everything but the best franchise and player of this Era and it should be Steph

You ain't wrong

People, remember ....these NBA youtubers can't hoop