Can We All Agree Just To Blame James Dolan For Kevin Durant's Injury?
Anybody that has fired up Twitter, watched a hot take sports show, or simply talked to someone else about Kevin Durant’s achilles popping like a balloon has heard the blame of why Durant got hurt heaped on someone. The Warriors doctors have been under fire for clearing Durant. Steve Kerr and Bob Myers took some shrapnel for Durant playing so much early in the game and not being on a minutes restriction after missing a month of games. The media as well as tweeters, trolls, and commenters were blamed for calling out Durant’s heart or saying he wasn’t playing to prove a point about the Warriors needing him. And even Durant took heat for returning before his body was ready.
However I am here to unite sports fans against a common enemy like Thanos because being on the same page is just so much easier. It’s the reason the Crying Jordan meme and Steph Curry Vines were so much fun. Everyone was enjoying them together instead of being segmented fans.
Which is why I am telling people to just blame James Dolan for this awful injury that happened to Kevin Durant. Us Knicks fans blame him all the time for bad stuff that happens to our team because it’s easy to do while also knowing somehow, some way we are probably right. Plus just look at his face. It is SUCH a punchable and blamable face.
Sure that kazoo playing chode had no actual input on Kevin Durant’s playing status on Monday. But Kevin Durant got Dolan’s bad mojo stench all over him by being linked to the Knicks for months now. Even back when Dolan was talking about the Knicks free agency plans had me dreading that this story had a sad ending.
Whenever something positive happens to the Knicks, an equally negative response slaps them across the face and puts the universe back in balance, as all things should be. The Knicks sign Amare Stoudemire, his knees turned to dust. The Knicks win the Carmelo Anthony Sweepstakes by trading all their assets to Denver (allegedly at Dolan’s request), #Me7o never makes it past the 2nd round of the #p7ayoffs as a Knick. Linsanity takes over the entire goddamn country, the Knicks let him become a Rocket.
So Durant getting hurt after being linked to team owned by mush of a human was actually as inevitable as a certain purple mad titan with the nutsack chin because everything bad always happens to the Knicks under Dolan’s watch. Of course people will blame the Knicks franchise as a whole because everything bad always happens to the Knicks. But believe it or not, my old ass remembers a time where good things actually happened to the Knicks without waiting for something bad to immediately happen. I know they never won a title. But they caught breaks in big games and were competitive for my first decade of following the NBA. If anything, you could say that outside of having Michael Jordan playing in the league, Knicks fans were pretty damn lucky to have the team they had save for a few daggers to the heart from Reggie Miller. And the suspensions following the PJ Brown game. And their once in a generation superstar having a bad knees from like the time he entered the league. And shit, maybe the Knicks haven’t been all that fortunate over the years. But it’s a lot easier to blame an asshole like this than to blame a logo or the words New York Knicks.
So again, if you are going to blame anyone for the Kevin Durant injury, blame James Dolan. The Basketball Gods came for Durant’s Achilles a month ago, missed their shot, then finished the job on Monday simply because Dolan is such a pox on the sport’s juju. And if you need more convincing, here are some more pictures of his stupid goddamn punchable face.
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P.S. I still have the same pit in my stomach that I had more than 36 hours after Durant went down. Goddammit that injury fucking sucks.