Kevin Durant didn’t discover Peyton Manning’s joke about him becoming a member of the Warriors humorous on the 2017 ESPY Awards — and he nonetheless isn’t laughing now.
Hours earlier than Wednesday’s ESPY Awards, a Twitter consumer requested Durant why he was “so salty” over Manning’s jab, and even included a clip of the now-viral second that featured the 33-year-old Nets star trying somber.
“If it was humorous I might’ve laughed…it’s a easy idea,” Durant replied.
Taking it again to the story of the tape, Manning — who served because the 2017 ESPYs host — roasted Durant whereas hyping up the Ultimate 5’s spectacular medal depend from the Olympics.
“The Ultimate 5 received probably the most Olympic medals of any US Ladies’s Gymnastics crew ever. And our gymnastics crew was so dominant that Kevin Durant instructed me he needs to play for them subsequent yr,” Manning quipped on the time. “And I gotta inform ya, I don’t assume you’d begin for that crew, Kevin.”
Manning then requested, “Russell Westbrook, what do you assume?” which drew laughs from the star-studded crowd. Because the cameras panned to Westbrook for a response shot, he stored his hand over his mouth.
On the time, Durant and Westbrook have been rumored to have been feuding after Durant left Westbrook and the Thunder to hitch Curry and the Warriors’ championship crew.
Later within the morning Wednesday, one other fan went after Durant over the second, tweeting, “It was positively humorous and You have been butthurt. Stop performing as if You don’t care when it’s CLEAR You do. It’s okay!”
Durant then hit again, “I actually don’t consider it’s that deep, it wasn’t humorous so I didn’t chuckle, im glad u loved the chuckle tho, it’s therapeutic for the soul.”
One athlete who did appear to benefit from the joke was Giants rookie linebacker Kayvon Thibodeaux, who tweeted Wednesday of the resurfaced clip, “Ayoooooo,” with a bunch of crying-laughing emojis.
The 2022 ESPY Awards will air dwell on Wednesday, July 20, at 8 pm ET on ABC, with Steph Curry — Durant’s former teammate — serving because the night time’s emcee.
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