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Kevin Durant Clears Up His Argument w/ Suns HC Mike Budenholzer | NBA on TNT Postgame · Bleacher Report

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  Speaker 1: And that altercation that happened between Kevin Durant and coach Bud.
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  Speaker 1: And as you can tell, the media likes to talk
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  Speaker 1: about it, the players and the coaches. They say, it's
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  Speaker 1: all part of doing business, So one more look at it.
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  Speaker 1: This harkens me back to remember when Lebron and Eric
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  Speaker 1: Spolstra bumped into each other and they were phenomenal after that.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes it gets out in the open. Here's Katie talking
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  Speaker 1: about the bumpious.
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  Speaker 2: So TNT capture you and Bud having an exchange.
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  Speaker 3: What was going on there? Yeah, that's what usually happens
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  Speaker 3: when you don't know the dynamics of a relationship. You know,
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  Speaker 3: you catch something on TV, you get a quote, and
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  Speaker 3: now you're pushing that narrative as if me and Bud
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  Speaker 3: don't do it all the time. Were competitive as two
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  Speaker 3: individuals who want to see things done the right way,
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  Speaker 3: and sometimes my way ain't the way that Bud want
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  Speaker 3: to do it, and vice versa. And he allows me
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  Speaker 3: as a player on the team, a veteran on the team,
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  Speaker 3: and voice my opinion. If I if we both didn't care,
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  Speaker 3: we would never have stuff like that.
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  Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 3: I am glad that the win is gonna sweep all
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  Speaker 3: of that stupid stuff under the rug because they couldn't
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  Speaker 3: People couldn't wait, even some people in Phoenix in here
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  Speaker 3: couldn't wait to run with that, you know, and soll this,
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  Speaker 3: this is the reason why the team ain't playing well
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  Speaker 3: because it's that specific thing. But come on, man, that
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  Speaker 3: shows that me and Bud really care about trying to write,
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  Speaker 3: trying to win basketball games. So he understands where I'm
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  Speaker 3: coming from. I understand exactly where he's coming from. It's
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  Speaker 3: just the people on the outside don't know the dynamics
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  Speaker 3: of the relationships. So you know, in order for them
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  Speaker 3: to get some attention, they going run with stuff like that.
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  Speaker 1: Appreciate the honesty right there from Kevin Durant, passion back
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  Speaker 1: against the wall, Slim pushed all those chips in the
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  Speaker 1: middle of the table and will them to a w.
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  Speaker 1: One of the more impressive performances I have seen from
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  Speaker 1: Trey five again, Kevin Durant in that fourth quarter nineteen
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  Speaker 1: points the Los Angeles Clippers twenty two points.
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  Speaker 5: But when I was.
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  Speaker 1: Talking about that, you were like, I could see you
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  Speaker 1: were saying, this is ridiculous. This is something that truly
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  Speaker 1: is an athlete versus fan conversation, competitiveness and fire where
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  Speaker 1: the fans may see two people arguing.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I believe everything he said, and everything he said
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  Speaker 4: was correct. But he used the word dynamic, dynamically grab
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  Speaker 4: me dynamically. This looks like we don't have a good relationship. However,
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  Speaker 4: I believe everything he said because, like I said earlier,
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  Speaker 4: I don't want to be a hypocrite and say and then.
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  Speaker 4: I've had conversations like that with Phil Jackson, with Brian Hill,
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  Speaker 4: coaches who I love and respect, coaches who helped me
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  Speaker 4: get to that next level. And I like his statement
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  Speaker 4: when you got too competitors. Sometime he wants to his way,
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  Speaker 4: sometime I went to my way. So the fact that
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  Speaker 4: they didn't disrespect each other, they're fine. Like if it
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  Speaker 4: would have like the little altercation, they would have kept
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  Speaker 4: going at disrespecting each other. Now that's something. Now I
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  Speaker 4: know you have a problem, But listen, bro, this happens.
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  Speaker 4: Trust me, games practice, shoot around. This happens with the
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  Speaker 4: number one player and the coaches go at it.
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  Speaker 6: But I think it's the next step too. Likes you
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  Speaker 6: just said the next step. They both came back together, right,
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  Speaker 6: They solved it. Coach, they cammunicated. This wasn't something. I
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  Speaker 6: think when you get worried about a team is when there's.
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  Speaker 1: Not communication, when there's a difference.
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  Speaker 6: When there's a different indifference exactly when things get.
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  Speaker 1: You see that guy sitting three seats.
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  Speaker 6: Down, when I think you worry.
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  Speaker 2: And that's the frustrating thing I think for athletes is that, Okay,
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  Speaker 2: we saw the altercation, but we also saw what happened after.
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  Speaker 4: That, the hug.
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  Speaker 2: But you ask one, but don't. I mean, it's it's
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  Speaker 2: a it's nothing there if we see them hugging and
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  Speaker 2: they move on. So I'm glad, you know, I understand
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  Speaker 2: Kd's frustration. I think that's an athlete's thing because you
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  Speaker 2: asked us about It's like, okay, cool, we have our
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  Speaker 2: things and that's what we do. But we moved on
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  Speaker 2: and we fixed the problem and we got to win.
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  Speaker 1: So I've always thought this as a fan of sports,
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  Speaker 1: that when something like this happens, it can be a
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  Speaker 1: rallying point. Because of this, Now the team and the
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  Speaker 1: coach can come together and say, you see, it's us
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  Speaker 1: against the world. They're trying to divide us. Like you
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  Speaker 1: can kind of rally behind that. Has that ever been
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  Speaker 1: the case?
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  Speaker 5: I'm not going to him.
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  Speaker 1: He's looking at it. Well, I know that you think
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  Speaker 1: the world never believed in you.
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  Speaker 4: So you're all out.
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  Speaker 5: As a fan, what I've always thought that when something
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  Speaker 5: like that happens, I don't.
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  Speaker 4: Think you're a foul. Here we go. Yeah, I don't
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  Speaker 4: need you to think for us going to make a
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  Speaker 4: Dallas you can. But no, so again, you don't know
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  Speaker 4: what goes on inside the locker room. You assume.
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  Speaker 5: But right, so what I'm saying here this is great
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  Speaker 5: for the team.
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  Speaker 4: I'm here to tell you from facts. It ain't all
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  Speaker 4: cool by you. But if but if you don't disrespect
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  Speaker 4: your peers and don't respect your coaches, that you can win,
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  Speaker 4: and you can win multiple times. I don't know if
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  Speaker 4: any Like when I watched the Bulls documenty there's a
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  Speaker 4: great dancing my left I said, oh my god, they
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  Speaker 4: have problems because because if you look at it, look like, oh,
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  Speaker 4: this team is perfect. Yeah, everybody thought it was peach
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  Speaker 4: and cream. So as a fan, you guys don't know
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  Speaker 4: what it takes.
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  Speaker 5: And you guys, that was the second time I'm just
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  Speaker 5: telling you to know What I'm saying, though, is you're saying,
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  Speaker 5: and I apologize, you're saying afraid peachy keen, but you're
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  Speaker 5: saying it's all peaches and cream.
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  Speaker 4: That's what I said. First of all, black people don't
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  Speaker 4: say peache. I said peaches and great. I ain't saying no,
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  Speaker 4: damn peach. I don't even know what peaches and keen
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  Speaker 4: is peaches and peaches and cream. I really gotta know
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  Speaker 4: what I mean. I mean, you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 6: I mean that crea