KD doesn't sweat Draymond's mother's ISO tweet: 'I love her like she's my mom'
It's going to take more than a disgruntled tweet for Kevin Durant to turn his back on a teammate's mother.
As the Golden State Warriors were getting thumped by the Houston Rockets in Game 2 of the Western Conference finals, Draymond Green's mother, Mary Babers, sent out a number of tweets chronicling her thoughts as she watched the reigning champions get blown out.
The next day, Babers appeared to shade Durant for taking too many shots (13-of-22 from the field) and not passing the ball more.
Straight ISO!
— MBG (@BabersGreen) May 17, 2018
What you talking about? It’s more to a game than shots! It left everyone else standing around never to get into position. SWING THE BALL. Pass the ball & around the 7 second mark take the shot(not at the 21 second mark). ISO ISO ISO! They beat us at our own game!
— MBG (@BabersGreen) May 17, 2018
Durant was made aware of the tweets, but won't allow them to change his opinion of her.
"I love her like she's my mom," Durant said Friday, according to Sports Illustrated's Ben Golliver.
With her tweets suddenly blowing up, especially on sports talk television, Babers made it clear that she was in no way trying to single out Durant, and was instead criticizing the Warriors as a whole for not incorporating everyone into the offense.
I was talking about what we do as a team and agreeing with someone else tweet! pic.twitter.com/BuqdVMoDFy
— MBG (@BabersGreen) May 18, 2018
First of all I didn’t blame @KDTrey5 for anything. I talked about our defense and iso Ball. Regardless to us making shots we pass the ball and get everyone into the game. KD stills end up with the ball! I said we did exactly what they did in the game they LOST!
— MBG (@BabersGreen) May 18, 2018
So stop trying to make like I’m against KD! I’m a KD fan and understand that he is one of the key guys on our team and glad for it! In order to win we must play Warrior ball-TEAM! Stop trying to draw a wedge between players using half my tweets! I talked about Dray too!
— MBG (@BabersGreen) May 18, 2018
I been tweeting and talking about games. You are foolish if you think I’m against KD! We win as a Team an I stand by that! I am a FAN LIKE EVERYONE ELSE but if you are going to say what I said, ASK ME SO I CAN EXPLAIN TO YOU WHAT I MEANT!
— MBG (@BabersGreen) May 18, 2018
By the way @stephenasmith I watch games and I know something about basketball so your comment was WRONG & SEXIST! However, I don’t have a narrative written that I must go by so I say what I want! Dray don’t talk to me about basketball or his team-SORRY!
— MBG (@BabersGreen) May 18, 2018
They just love to stir up mess! I have my very own KD’s! lol
— MBG (@BabersGreen) May 18, 2018