Kevin Durant Defended LaMelo Ball’s Lamborghini Before Challenging Someone On Twitter To A Debate

Kevin Durant isn’t afraid to call out just about anyone on Twitter these days. The reigning NBA Finals MVP has taken aim at a conservative former ESPN reporter, said a schoolteacher should be “fired and throw in jail” and even defended some of his earlier Tweets, which were a bit out there. He’s even been able to explain the finer points of the NBA transaction wire to a rapper.

Durant is having the time of his life this summer, and it’s been an enjoyable side effect of him finally becoming an NBA champion. But as the month flips from August to September, it doesn’t look like the Summer of KD is slowing down anytime soon.

His latest Twitter interaction involved defending LaMelo Ball, who was given a very nice car by his father, LaVar Ball. The high school junior became the first 16-year-old to ever be given his own signature shoe, but with every Ball story there is a Ball backlash.

Durant took to Twitter to compliment the littlest Big Baller’s choice of vehicle on Thursday, which immediately garnered him some responses.

Because it’s the Summer of KD, Durant picked one out and poked fun at him for wanting a Lamborghini for himself.

The argument being debated here is actually a pretty interesting one. What motivates a basketball player on the court? For Durant, it was clearly the quest for a championship. When he came close and failed in that regard, his focus narrowed further. Consider, for example, that he wouldn’t be engaging people on Twitter if Golden State had somehow lost to Cleveland again back in June.

Durant’s response here is also telling. Its a popular narrative in sports, an athlete making good on the desire to climb the economic ladder through sports. And though Durant was famously not from a wealthy household growing up, he’s arguing that economic security isn’t the only motivation for basketball players to find success.

So much of sports revolves around consumerism. And sure, LaVar Ball getting his children nice cars is absolutely about the collection of things. But that’s not always the reason someone tries to win very badly on the basketball court. Durant is arguing that the two things don’t always have to intermesh.

The exchange is actually one of the more enlightening conversations between an athlete and a blogger I’ve seen in some time.

Then another Twitter user jumps in and the whole thing turns into a challenge to a basketball knowledge-off.

Wait for it. It’s coming.

Nope. Not yet.

There we go.

“Bring ya friends” is a pretty great line here, honestly. But the user claims he has the receipts that prove he can take KD to school.

What’s nice about this exchange is that it never really got ugly. Durant even gave the guy a follow, apparently to make this meeting happen for real.

https://twitter.com/RipCityGoon/status/903384200086151168

Sometimes, Twitter can be extremely good.