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Gilbert Arenas Shares Surprisingly Reasonable and Nuanced Take on Kevin Durant-Kendrick Perkins Feud

By Brendan Balsamo

Gilbert Arenas has offered up his thoughts on the Kendrick Perkins-Kevin Durant Twitter war.
Gilbert Arenas has offered up his thoughts on the Kendrick Perkins-Kevin Durant Twitter war. /

By now, any sports fan has for sure heard of the beef between ESPN analyst Kendrick Perkins and Brooklyn Nets star Kevin Durant. After Perkins called Houston Rockets guard Russell Westbrook the best player to play for the Oklahoma City Thunder, Durant took exception and went after Perkins for his take, which prompted Perkins to criticize Durant's decision to join the Golden State Warriors.

Gilbert Arenas, a former NBA player that played for the Warriors, Wizards, Magic, and Grizzlies, had his own take on Durant's decision.

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@therealkendrickperkins everyone has there opinion about @easymoneysniper GS move and as a hooper u should have put more thought into what u said so I'll give u an history lesson..2012 a young and upcoming okc team went to the finals being (inexperience) they lost to the HEAT...2013 the team didn't succeed like they would have wanted.that summer OKC ownership made the dumbest move by not securing (harden) if u can put harden back.(KD/Russ/harden) was more powerful then (curry/klay/green) which later became the team too beat (GS 1 ring ) could have been Easily been (OKC 3 peat if harden never left) but let's keep moving..now 2016 okc takes. 3-1 to GS and loses.cavs won the championship that season.KD is a free agent....here's where short minded thinkers fail to realize @easymoneysniper had no choice..OKC was moving backwards in progress..NOW here's why KD had no choice..you guys sit on tv with pushing rings and legacy down fans throats so KD is a free agent at 27 years old with a sheet that looks like this?7 time all star.7 time all Nba...4 time scoring champ..1 time mvp..2 time allstar mvp.2 time gold medalists? there's not 5 NBA players in history that can say they were FIRST BALLET HALL OF FAMERS by 27...the only thing needed as an individual player was (ring and finals mvp) now let's take a look at opinions..only two teams that can give him those two boxes were GS and cavs who were the champs..being the champs cavs wasn't making a move..actually like me say this better..CAVS being cheap asses wasn't gonna sign KD (Dan Gilbert bought that team in 2005) the biggest outside free agent they have signed was @thereallhughes in 2005...that was 15 years ago...contracts has double since then and that's still the biggest outside free agent signings ???‍♂️ so the only team that's left was GS....as someone checking boxes off his nba career that was the smartest move he could have made?I'm sorry Kendrick but everyone is not lucky enough to be a sorry ass rebuilding Boston team and bam bam two ex Boston players (Danny A and mchale) does a deal that makes u a champ..now u think u light skinned with ya chest out ? PS I agree with 99% of the stuff u spit tho ???

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Citing Durant's lack of NBA Finals accolades as a good reason to move, Arenas defended Durant's choice to jump ship from the Thunder, as he believed OKC was headed backwards after blowing a 3-1 series lead to the Warriors in 2016. He agreed that the only titles Durant had yet to achieve were NBA champion and NBA Finals MVP.

Durant's move has been a contentious topic since he made it in July of 2016, and many fans still see his decision to leave the Thunder for a perennial championship contender in the Warriors as a weak move. Arenas provided a different take, however, that could possibly change the way many people feel about what he did.