He starts by praising Kevin Durant for becoming so dominating so early in his career, then makes a great point about the alarmist hype that comes from people like Matt Taibbi and Colin Cowherd.
In trying to say that Durant’s game is hard to describe, he almost dismisses Michael Jordan as just a better version of past players, writing – “he was the latest in the line that gores back to Julius Irving and (Elgin) Baylor.” I am very uncomfortable with anything that sounds like - “Jordan was great, but…”
Heisler was three quarters through his article before he reintroduced the already tired accusations from Kevin Garnett and Phil Jackson that Durant gets favorable calls from the refs. Those claims are not true. They were made by two assholes. If a couple nice guys like Steve Nash and Rick Adelman would have made those charges I would listen.
For the record, I was one of those people that insisted that Portland should draft Greg Oden over Durant in the 2007 NBA Draft. I called Oden the next big star in the league and compared Durant to a skinny Glenn Robinson. Oops!
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