Kevin Durant quickly responds after Demarcus Cousins claims Suns had ‘fist fights' in locker room
The Suns were a mess this season, but Kevin Durant is refuting that they were fist fights-in-the-locker-room levels of messy.
Former All-NBA center and four-time All Star Demarcus Cousins said on 'Run it Back' Friday that there were 'absolutely' fist fights in the Phoenix locker room this past season.
Where Cousins got this information from is unclear, but for Durant, he was actually in the Suns locker room.
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'I have to contest this 94 footer,' Durant posted to X in response to Cousins' claims. 'This some bulls–t to throw on us. Yea yea yea we were trash this year ha ha ha but we NEVER got close to this. NEVER.'
4 Kevin Durant is more than likely going to be on a new team next season.
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Durant has become known for never backing down from arguments on X, as he often calls out fans and reporters on misinformation or opinions he disagrees with. So, it wasn't too shocking to hear from him after Cousins' 'bullsh–t' reports.
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While Cousins' claims about the locker-room fights were quickly refuted by Durant, he certainly had some other valid criticisms of the Suns' season during his segment of the show.
4 Demarcus Cousins spoke on some reports he heard that there were fist fights in the Suns' locker room this past season — Run It Back's X has since deleted the clip.
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'Phoenix was a bad situation from the jump,' he said. 'They put a team together based off names. It was never a team that made sense. You just put a bunch of scorers together and then threw some other names on and said 'Go win a championship.' That's not how the game of basketball works.'
Phoenix deployed a star trio of Durant, Devin Booker and Bradley Beal, yet finished 11th in the Western Conference and failed to even win 40 games.
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4 The Suns' big three with Devin Booker (1), Kevin Durant (35) and Bradley Beal (3) did not work out well.
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Now, Durant essentially has one foot out the door with an offseason trade looming, while Beal is essentially an unmovable piece with his limited production on a $250-million contract that still has two years remaining.
Cousins spent 11 years in the NBA and was a dominant force for many of them before suffering an achilles injury that derailed his career. In 2018-19, he played 30 games with the Warriors alongside Durant.
4 Demarcus Cousins spent a season with Kevin Durant on the Warriors.
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He went viral last week for his shocking altercations with unruly fans in the Puerto Rican Professional Basketball League.
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