Iconic sports brand Nike is saluting Kevin Durant for just doing it. The popular apparel giant has acknowledged KD’s short-lived but heroic effort to compete in this week’s NBA Finals Game 5.
Nike relied on Instagram last night to acknowledge Durant’s love for basketball fueling his decision to rush back from a potential season-ending injury.
This week, Durant’s former teammate Matt Barnes jumped on Instagram and kept it 100 on sports analysts going off on KD’s decision to play.
On Tuesday, diehard sports fan Cam’ron hit up Instagram with a salute to KD for putting his body on the line in an attempt to help the Dubs win a crucial match-up against the Toronto Raptors.
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We live in a era where players put money, contracts and they’re health first. (As they should) but just to see Kevin Durant take the floor last night was special. I’m old enough to see Isaiah Thomas (pistons) score 25 on damn near a broke foot, or seen footage of Willis reed come back to help win a championship on one leg. So to see KD even get on that floor Gave me a chill. Everyone was questioning if KD wanted to play, if he wanted to still be a Warrior (this season) blah blah blah, well he answered the call. Now that he got hurt, some people are going to say he shouldn’t of played. (You’re damned if you do, Damned if u don’t) Because of so much media (social, internet, television) the narrative changes every 2hrs. (Everybody loved “The Greek Freak last month, now kawhi is the man) which is cool. But u can’t please everyone all the time. And I just want to thank KD for trying to put forth a effort that doesn’t happen anymore. And trust me no one is more hurt then he is. Of course physically, but as a competitor. My love and prayers go out to him. And I know he’ll be back better and tougher.
A post shared by @ mr_camron on Jun 11, 2019 at 7:46am PDT
The injury even sparked a heartfelt post from Toronto Raptors super fan Drake
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