{"id":6371,"date":"2019-03-20T15:25:49","date_gmt":"2019-03-20T20:25:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fredsportsextra.com\/?p=6371"},"modified":"2019-07-18T18:46:27","modified_gmt":"2019-07-18T23:46:27","slug":"enough-i-am-good-with-kevin-durant-today-as-collisons-number-4-retired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fredsportsextra.com\/?p=6371","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Enough&#8221;&#8230;&#8230;I am good with Kevin Durant today as Collison&#8217;s number 4 retired&#8230;.."},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>Collison Respects KD<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fredsportsextra.com\/?attachment_id=6372\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6372\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6372\" src=\"https:\/\/fredsportsextra.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Kevin_Durant_expresses_reasons_for_return_to_Oklahoma_City_for_Nick_Collison_ceremony-1000x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fredsportsextra.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Kevin_Durant_expresses_reasons_for_return_to_Oklahoma_City_for_Nick_Collison_ceremony-1000x600.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/fredsportsextra.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Kevin_Durant_expresses_reasons_for_return_to_Oklahoma_City_for_Nick_Collison_ceremony-1000x600-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/fredsportsextra.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Kevin_Durant_expresses_reasons_for_return_to_Oklahoma_City_for_Nick_Collison_ceremony-1000x600-768x461.jpg 768w, https:\/\/fredsportsextra.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Kevin_Durant_expresses_reasons_for_return_to_Oklahoma_City_for_Nick_Collison_ceremony-1000x600-525x315.jpg 525w, https:\/\/fredsportsextra.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Kevin_Durant_expresses_reasons_for_return_to_Oklahoma_City_for_Nick_Collison_ceremony-1000x600-100x60.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Love Actually - To me you are perfect\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/B7u6bMBlCXw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h6><\/h6>\n<h6><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>At the end of one of my favorite scenes in one of my most favorite flicks, &#8220;Love Actually&#8221;, actor Andrew Lincoln tells actress Kira Knightly, after a touching encounter, &#8220;ENOUGH&#8221;&#8230;..and that is my feeling today with my negative attitude toward former Oklahoma City Thunder superstar Kevin Durant.\u00a0 I have moved on, finally, on the day the franchise honors their first player to have their number retired, number four worn by Nick Collison.<\/strong><\/span><\/h6>\n<h6><\/h6>\n<h6><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong> \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/h6>\n<h6><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>Looking back at his career, Collison has stated he hopes one day Kevin Durant&#8217;s 35 will join his number in the rafters of the Chesapeake Energy Arena. He is also glad that the now Golden State star will be in OKC tonight for the ceremony.<\/strong><\/span><\/h6>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h6><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/h6>\n<h6><strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Collison is happy his former teammate will attend his ceremony, regardless of the bad blood between him and the OKC crowd.\u00a0 Many Thunder fans have a bone to pick for Durant leaving the franchise as a free agent in 2016. My bone is now bare without meat.\u00a0 As Collison says:<\/span><\/strong><\/h6>\n<blockquote>\n<h6><strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">\u201cI thought it was great. I played a long time with Kevin, and he\u2019s a special, special teammate&#8230;\u2026.It wasn\u2019t just because he is a great player, but he\u2019s one of the guys I played with the longest. All that stuff about OKC and building the team, he was for most of that too. I thought that was really cool that he was going to come. It\u2019s not easy to do logistically in the middle of the season, and I know it\u2019s not easy for him to do with all the stuff that\u2019s around him with coming back. But I thought it was great. I\u2019ve texted with him a couple times, and I\u2019ll be happy to see him.\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/h6>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h6><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>With those words, Durant is good with me, finally.\u00a0 It was pointed out earlier in the week that the relationship between Russell Westbrook and Kevin Durant was a major reason for Kevin leaving OKC a couple of years ago. I now get it. Russell can be difficult to play with. 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