Kevin Durant Only Has Himself to Blame... 

The culture that Brooklyn had with DLO and that team was unmatched. Crazy they traded that away just to end it with Ben Simmons

The Nets don’t have any backbone. They fired Kenny Atkinson because Kyrie and KD wanted Deandre Jordan to get more minutes over Jarrett Allen. That’s when I knew this was gonna become a disaster.

He makes bad decisions. He shouldn't have gone to a team that just beat him, after they had 73 wins. But okay he did, got 2 rings. Then he leaves them, they wouldve been like the bulls and dominated for multiple championships, but he decided to let the fans talking get to him. He moves to start a new team with the diva kyrie, gets everything from the front office exactly the way he likes it, takes the L, curry has an amazing year, he now wants out the nets and guess to where? The sun's or the heat😂😂 top tier teams that have been in the finals recently. mofo does it to himself, legendary player but he'll never be as respected as he could've been.

he left OKC for GSW but now treats GSW with subtle disrespect really shows his true reptilian character

“I was with my homies, chillin. Then BAM , KD wants a trade” Mustard u gotta chill 😭😭😭😭😭

That whole, "We don't need coaching...anyone could be the coach" was a really bad omen.

the 22 warriors ring hurt kd the most since steph proved he could win before and after kd. leaving the warriors hurt his legacy

When Kd and Kyrie signed on the nets, they still had kenny atkinson, dinwiddie, levert, J allen and good depth. They got rid of all of that and the culture that’s been built

I still say the Nets made the mistake trading for James harden. When they gave away their whole depth and defense , that’s when I said that they were not going to win a championship.

Well honestly it's not even insecurity. It's objectively bad that he left that Thunder team to join the team that beat them, who they were also up 3-1 again. You cannot tell me that there's one NBA fan in the world who thinks KD's rings are not him taking the easy way out. He left to be THE guy on a team, and to which I respected him for. However, now that he demanded a trade TO THE TWO TOP SEEDS OF EACH CONFERENCE, it just further solidifies Chuck's argument that he's a bus rider.

The fact that this season the splash brothers played more together then what KD and Irving have played with each other for the duration of their nets tenure

Funny thing bout dis is , ben simmons thought he was gonna average 14 pts 7 boards n 6 ast n just get dat max bag n chill behind kd n kyrie.😭

KD wanted this, he did this to himself

Being a bruh from the Bay Area ( Silicon Valley, we don’t have luv for K.D.) He literally held us hostage. Dude had a agenda. He wanted to go to an organisation that was chip deep. Then he wanted to undermine Steph’s leadership systemically. He wanted the ball in the 4th quarter. That’s true boss time! Then he charged us by renewing his contract every year.🥺 Then there came the MVPs 😱❗️The one that hurt the most was when Steph had 39 points but we gave it to KD when he scored 24 points.He tried to get Draymond to pass him the ball , when we run specific plays. All game. When he had his own team , he wasn't Boss enough to run it, now true to course, he is looking for another team to bamboozled for a chip or two.

KD will never be respected. Dude threw Russ under the bus to link with GS. Got his feelings hurt when Draymond told the truth about him. Went to BK where they paid him a whole year to rehab while signing DJ, firing Atkinson, hiring a noob in Nash, trading their good young depth to acquire Harden, etc. Then sat back while Irvin create all this drama and drove Harden away this season. Winds up getting absolutely humiliating by Tatum in the Celtics. All to ask for a trade to latch into another established squad where he can skip responsibility. He’s not a leader and will never be in that MJ, Kobe tier

Nets is the prime example of why you shouldn’t let players rule the franchise. Players should play the game with their teammates, not be the coach or GM

Kd made the right decision leaving Golden State but made a huge mistake going to Golden State In the first place

Barkley looking more right saying KD isn't a bus driver

He made the right decision to go to GS because it gave him an opportunity to play the game the right way. He got two chips and two FMVPs out of it as a bonus. He and Kylie are not wired to be leaders. I suspect that teams are reluctant to deal with these guys because they are very unpredictable.

KD going to GSW in hindsight was easily the best decision he ever made and this is coming from a thunder fan. Those two rings alone have people arguing he’s top 8-15 all time and he’s clearly shown he’s not winning without them and if he does it’ll just boost him that much more

Right and wrong... 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Good for Dubs now. No need to get Durant.

Kd staying with the GSW after 2019 would've done nothing for his legacy, nor Curry's really. It would've stagnated both of their development and career achievements. It will always look worse on Kd's part because it's not his team, it's Curry's. Another mvp player in his prime who had already one and was coming off back to back finals like cmonn dawg

The fact that people are saying he shouldn’t have left the Warriors is so funny, the problem isn’t that he left, it’s the fact he joined in the first place and I respect him immensely for leaving, remember he signed pre Covid mandate with Kyrie, I give KD 20% of the blame and 50% to Kyrie and 30% to harden. I’m usually the KD hater in the comments but I can’t fault him for just being done with Brooklyn and I hope the reports of him “wanting to play with Kyrie somewhere else” are false

Bro wtf why everybody keep saying “He made a mistake leaving gs” like bro Errbody was dying it was unfair now it’s a mistake he left plus he had a falling out with Draymond. Idk why y’all back tracking like if he was on the team Errbody would be saying his rings don’t count.

Meltdown of epic proportion’s

Nah, oh hell no. I’m not even a KD fanboy but what we’re not gonna do is clown him for leaving Golden state. For one, he wanted to prove himself and knew those titles didn’t provide him the happiness & the validation of the “Best player in the league” over Bron. Plus the whole damn league was discrediting him for it 24/7 & was constantly pitting narratives of getting him out of there. Hell with him on that team there is Bucks Chip. There is no lakers chip. There is no parity in the league. The only person that would “back him” as the best in the world was people like Skip Bayless but not because he truly believed it but more so it’d be an indirect shot at LeBron. Where he does deserve blame is as you said, he chose to follow Kyrie.

In my opinion the Nets fumbled by not standing up to the mandates and just letting Kyrie play now we were robbed of Harden, KD and Kyrie

Kevin Durant is the ultimate example of why you should ALWAYS have confidence in yourself I always found it odd KD looked at leBron as his rival but not steph despite being in the same conference and playing each other fairly often... but anyway after the spurs and clippers fell off in 2015 the west was supposed to go thru 2 teams OKC and Golden State but KD decided to give up on his squad and if that wasn't bad enough he went and joined his main opposition the following season... he gave them a second wind after leBron and kyrie snatched their souls in 2016 he made them a dynasty he made them unbeatable he even jeopardized his career tearing his achilles he did all that just for draymond green to tell him he wasn't 💩 , for the team to half ass clap and celebrate after he won finals MVP in 2018 and for bob myers to disrespect him at the championship rally He played himself 🤦🏾‍♂️

Great content bro

Another FANTASTIC video YM!! Thank you! ^__^

I dont blame KD for leaving gsw. He do need to leave kyrie bro.

For some reason people don’t even mention the fact that when KD was injured that first year, Kyrie decides to not play either🙄

If anything if KD is as good as everyone believes he is he made a mistake going to gs in the first place not leaving and he made a mistake going to Brooklyn not leaving gs.

We can’t blame kd for this. Ki literally killed the scary hour nets

lol of course he cares. I can understand leaving GS to make his own legacy, but the extreme lapse in judgement was hitching his wagon to Kyrie. Same people who thought that was a good idea thought the Lakers trading for Russ was a boss move.

My issue with KD is that he’s a miserable and insecure person. He was miserable in OKC, miserable in the best situation EVER in Golden State, miserable in Brooklyn when he brought this upon himself, and he will be miserable the next place he goes too. He can’t handle criticism and stays clapping back at randoms on twitter, only making himself look worse. He’s a toxic person that contributes to the downfall of every organization he plays with, and is a terrible leader.

This man has 2 rings and yet it looks like he has none of them… Damn!

Very good take. There was A LOT of psychology in this take! Great vid!

I've been singing this damn song about KD for years finally people are starting to see what I've been saying for years, people were saying I'm a troll, but now they understand me @Yung Mustard u just take the words right out of my mouth respect homie keep up the good work

Mustard was showing no Mercy in this video💀💀

That Steph opp to KD was krazy 😭😭😭😭

I think Durant's sojourn across the NBA provides about 2 or 3 object lessons for young people starting out in life, whatever field they go into. I'll just do one here: Beware of taking shortcuts to reach your goals. Otherwise, even if you get the thing you think you want, you may not have an internal feeling of a true and authentic connection to that prize you're holding in your hand. There appears to be a restlessness about Durant in his chosen profession. Why did he leave Golden State? Only Kevin Durant knows. But unfortunately for him, as far as his legacy goes: it sure seems to a lot of people that his joining the Warriors under the circumstances that he did so, was a shortcut. I think that he, James Harden, and Russell Westbrook all would have better off staying in OKC for 15 to 20 year stretches, letting the chips fall where they may.

I knew they wasn't gonna do shit when they said they didn't need coaching.

Beautiful intro bro! ✅

I truly believe that the best team Brooklyn had in recent memory is when they had D’Angelo Russell, Spencer Dinwidde, Caris LeVert, Jarrett Allen, etc. That team was like young up and coming and they were good! But then of course they somehow blew it all up. Now look at them. Jarrett Allen and Caris LeVert have been centerpieces in the Cavaliers rebuild. And Spencer Dinwidde has been proving himself with the Mavericks. The only one who is questionable is of course D-LO, but he can still ball out

Him going to the warriors wasn’t a good decision because ultimately we saw a different side of KD because truly I believe the way he won those titles and the response from the masses bothered him. I think you if you ask KD he’d rather have a title where he was the undisputed number 1 and won a finals mvp like Curry in this years final or dirk and etc than his two with golden state.

now kd has lost all credibility in my eyes

KD made the right choice joining golden state. his mistake was leaving golden state. people might have been mad about him joining that warriors team that beat him the year before but they would have all eventually got over it and in 20 years no one would remember the circumstances of him joining golden state. he could have just hung around stacking chips and mvps, and there is a point where eventually you have so many accolades that no one can say shit; but instead he let kids on twitter dictate where his legacy would ultimately head because he’s emotionally soft. KD and steph could have won in ‘21 without klay, and won back to back again this season and he could be sitting pretty with 4 chips and possibly 4 finals mvps, and still go into the next few seasons potentially winning more. instead KD is going out sad because he cared too much what kids on twitter were saying.

Its Kyrie and Harden who didnt hold up their end of the bargain. Harden became a shell of himself and left when it got tough... Kyrie doing Kyrie shit.. KD the only one who showed up to work everyday.... KD did what he was supposed to do.

Curry saved kd's legacy

GET HIM MUSTARD!!

Steve nash was close friends with sean marks that wasnt KDs decision alone

So what makes him a"superstar"🤔? His🏀skills make him a🌟but the intangibles would make him a"superstar", to me! He didn't have to SAY his not a leader, his actions after the '16 season SHOWED me.

Anybody have an idea of the name of prod. of the first beat?

Still feel like he could have won that OKC and warriors series with russ

i legit forgot ben is on the nets lol

Absolutely no excuses for KD period Yung Mustard.

He was once humble cried at his momma speech super star at Texas got Ring Thanks to Steph n Company..Then tried to go gangsta

bro whats the music in the vid?

The snake has return mr snake is here

KD Leaving OKC was great for both his and Westbrook’s career but it killed both of their legacies. Russ is seen as a star padded and KD is a bus rider as Barkley would put it.

Zaddy 😩💯

I’d rather sign Jameer Nelson rn than Kyrie

Yes he made the right decision. If you listen to Draymond Green's Hampton's Five story on JJ Reddick's podcast, he talks about how KD loves basketball and just wanted to play a better brand of basketball. Of course there is the rings they would win, but Golden State fit KD's ideal playstyle at the time.

Curry was always the best player on GSW. KD could rack up his stats because teams were most afraid of Curry. I will also never consider him better than Dirk.

ima be honest kyrie needs to hit the gym and put in the work. part of the issue is he didn't pack the muscle required for later years in the NBA. he looks soft and light.

The news that KD wanted a trade hit you like a truck? It's sad that people worship sports stars to this extent. These guys wouldn't throw a glass of water on you if you were on fire.

both of kd's rings in GS have an asterisk next to them

KD is such a front runner it’s insane lmfaoo

If Kd stayed with ock they would have at least 1 ring now. And that would be more valuable than both rings he got in GS

Nobody can blame KD for leaving Golden State because he simply had to. No one was ever going to respect the rings he had won and would potentially win in the future. WHere the blame on him does count is that he didnt leave Golden State to some bumass or mediocre team, he left to go to a Brookly Nets team that had made the playoffs WITHOUT Kyrie, except now he had Kyrie, AND he had James Harden. He shouldve done way more than win one series in his entire tenure, Lebron always delivered a championship to whatever team he joined within 2 years and furthermore he did it with the same guy Durant has in Kyrie. The blame on KD is that he underperformed in Brooklyn not that he lleft Golden State because he NEEDED to prove that he could win without Curry, Klay and Draymond

YM - Good video man! I agree with you 100%. KI is a nut job and KD’s choices due to his insecurities.

Tell me something KD, DONT YOU REGRET NOT COMING TO THE KNICKSSSSSSSS

i think if draymond didnt punk him in that game plus media slow replaying so you can see what he said . he'll still be a warrior maybe on his 4 or 5 chip and we would be talking about the bulls dynasty . i truly believe 90's bulls would not have stayed together in 2020 they might have broke up after 2 rings social media would have blown jordans behavior way out of proportion Rodman in his prime on twitter smh

I don't blame any of them for their initial choice (while I felt that KD's skillset was a natural fit with GSW, his mindset and preferred style of basketball was not...so he became unhappy, even while winning). So he wanted to play with his BFF. COOL! He even left with a S&T. BUT... all the decisions the Nets made after, were ultimately trash. IDK what their best path could've been, but I believe taking a stand earlier to keep the culture they'd already built would've likely helped, IMHO

Even though Lebron also left franchises in ruins, at least he delivered a chip to each one before he left.

Hell nah mustard. Staying in Golden state was just not an option if he wanted to build any type of legacy after utterly destroying it on july 4th, 2016.

Player empowerment with Bosh Wade and LeBron wasn't as bad as people made it out to be. The clear weakness of the superteam is being too top heavy. The GSW lucked out on under paying Steph early in his career to build the team around him. Now he's highest paid in the league. That cap increase that allowed them to sign KD also helped a lot too. Directly related to the popularity of the NBA increasing with their success no doubt. The way Brooklyn catered to unrealistic expectations from often injured often carried superstars teaming together was a pipe dream. Kyrie not getting vaccinated sank this whole thing ultimately which I'll give credit was the Titanic iceburg like stealthily unexpectedly done.

Why you do my Pistons like that?! Lol, yeah we trash right now.

KD made right decision to go to GSW, but the wrong decision to leave!

KD doesn't elevate the players around him and his leadership skills are poor

Well fucking said Yung Mustard

In my opinion, the question on whether KD made the right decision depends entirely on what's important to KO. There were issues in OKC. The media talked a lot about why Russ was often taking over in the last 2 minutes, rather than setting up KD. Each year they fell out of the playoffs, in the media it was wondered if KD needed a true point guard and stated that Russ was more of a 2. I don't really remember, but it seemed to me then, in the last 2 minutes when it's time to win or lose, OKC turned the ball over a lot and fell short because of that more than anything else. KD always backed Russ and, I think, began to see the media as a team divider (read "an enemy." And who's blaming? Cut it out). Was the media correct? Would better coaching (or stronger influence?) have helped? When KD joined GS, I think he saw their brand of basketball, and I think he called it "beautiful... the way basketball should be played." When he left he just wanted to play hero ball again. He didn't want to play that way anymore. He didn't like Kerr asking him to trust team his team mates and pass the ball (not saying he didn't... I think his assists were the most of his career). And his defense was lauded as the best he had performed. KD is always great individually, but he became a champion as part of a team. Whos' mvp? (smh). Is the GM more important than the person who cleans the toilets? I don't know, but I'd ask the customers and not anybody else. GS execs at the parade, did not feed the ego (of any nba player, let alone one of the best ever!) and ow, ow, ow (self sabotage!!). Away from the court, after the game, I think the team all went back to their wives and kids, maybe? They were in a different stage of life. When KD went to Brooklyn, he was joining a friend. Someone on his same stage. They had the dream. It didn't pan out. I'm not going there. I think KD and Kyrie should play it out in Brooklyn. They have a good chance to be competitive and maybe win. A string of good health is all the need. Best wishes to you KD. You deserve. K

I honestly don't blame Kd at all for coming to the Nets or leaving the Warriors or requesting a trade because to me its the Nets , they are a sorry terrible disfigured organization and yes without a doubt Kd going to the Warriors was the best decision of his life and his rings don't diminish his legacy , they celitify his legacy as a truly all time great player and I don't think he deserves as much hate as he is receiving

People getting mad when LeBron tried building a super team. KD wanna get traded to a established one 🤣

Nobody as real as you Mustard.

That's the effect of the lebronic plague players feel they know everything and don't need coaches like the KING OF FLOP.

yessir

The Nets should try and trade Kyrie for AD and then KD can play with a core of Simmons, Davis, Seth Curry, etc. He can just flesh the team out and maybe salvage his legacy some there. That team's not bad and it's way easier than trying to force his way somewhere else.

i’m gonna have to get that font from the thumbnail

The Brooklyn nets organization gotta be mad pissed they gave up so much just to not have shit

I think KD did make the right decision by going to warriors! But he should of stayed with the Thunder he has a solid team there at 1 point. But I like the warriors and he never should have left. He had something really good there. And if he would if stayed no one would have questioned his championships but he left. So now we are questioning if KD would of ever won any rings if it wasn’t for Steph, Klay, Dray! Well never know. That was his biggest mistake. He wanted to be the man. Well he’s the man now. And he can’t take the heat! So he’s getting the fuck outta the kitchen!!

He did make the right choice. Playing with the two greatest shooter of all time make the greatest super team of all time

Wut if KD is just waiting to see where Donovan Mitchell goes 🤔

KD should of went back to OKC or go to Washington instead of the Nets. Do something truly historic. Bro would rather play on rookie and have all the sliders up then actually be a competitor.

KD dropped the ball when he joined the Warriors. They were his rivals! You can be friends off the court but join forces as a superstar with a team with 3-4 all-stars... Come on. We criticized LeBron a lot and the only reason that we don't hate on the Miami championships this much is because Dirk beat them, and that showed that they were not invincible. The KD Warriors were simply too much. At some point, you have to care about legacy, loyalty, your team, your fans... In the end, you are earning millions of dollars because of all these things. LeBron at least won for the Cavs and brought them to the finals 3 more times, I value a lot more trying to get a championship to the team that drafted you. It doesn't mean that NBA Teams don't make mistakes, but man, you're a millionaire, be better.

It’s the Brooklyn Nets

He choosed the worse in between choice

KD would have won eventually in OKC. he didnt want to wait. he wanted it easy

Ryan hollins take calling this overrated wasnt so bad