Sorry Kevin Durant, Mat Ishbia wasn’t taking a shot at you

In episode 4579 of Kevin Durant engaging in discourse with anyone who mentions his name, he pushes back against a poorly aggregated quote from Suns owner Mat Ishbia’s interview with CNBC sports reporter Alex Sherman on Friday, in which Ishbia was talking about the realities of building a championship team in the 2020s and the mistakes he made in establishing a culture with his first moves as team governor.

After an NBA media aggregation account on X known for leaving important context out of interviews posted a quote from Ishbia during the interview that sounded like he was taking a shot at Durant, the post came across the former Phoenix Suns player’s social media timeline. Durant quickly responded with his first post on X in over two months that wasn’t him shouting out his media company, Boardroom, or his NFL and college football picks and parlays with FanDuel.

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For the past few months, Durant has mostly been commenting on social media threads, something he referred to at the end of his post, presumably because he feels there is less criticism of him or negative basketball commentary.

While Durant may have felt that Ishbia was taking a jab at him and the team’s underwhelming seasons while he was a member of the Suns, the Suns owner didn’t feel he was doing so and went online to respond to Durant’s backlash, accusing Durant of not watching the entire clip from which the quote was aggregated.

What was being discussed when Ishbia said that bringing in a player like Kevin Durant doesn’t necessarily lead to championships was that, in his early days as owner, he didn’t do a good job of defining the type of culture he wanted the team and organization to have. While being complimentary and highlighting the greatness of the two-time NBA champion, he admitted that he did not build the right culture to help his stars succeed. He very memorably approved a trade for Durant on his second day as team owner.

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But even after being called out by Ishbia for not taking a closer look at the quote, Durant doubled down, appearing to take a shot at the Suns for how they had to get rid of Bradley Beal, someone…

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Publish date : 2026-10-18 00:00:00

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