{"id":123766,"date":"2025-06-25T14:56:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T14:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/123766\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T14:56:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T14:56:10","slug":"sports-illustrated-kevin-durant-had-a-classy-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/123766\/","title":{"rendered":"Sports Illustrated &#8211; Kevin Durant Had a Classy Message\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/1750863370_970_01jykjdde6dwqyy37arx.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\"\/>Kevin Durant during a Suns game this season. | Mark J. Rebilas-Imagn Images<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Durant isn&#8217;t mad at all the Phoenix Suns fans. In fact, he appreciates the real ones, according to his latest social media post.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday morning Durant responded to a tweet saying &#8220;Real suns fans appreciated&#8221; him. Durant, who was just <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/nba\/nba-world-reacts-to-kevin-durant-being-traded-to-rockets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">traded to the Houston Rockets<\/a> after two-plus tumultuous seasons in the desert, responded saying he appreciated &#8220;REAL&#8221; Suns fans and &#8220;love forever.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">And I appreciate REAL suns fans. Love forever<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kevin Durant (@KDTrey5) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KDTrey5\/status\/1937843022013555110?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">June 25, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is much nicer than the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/nba\/kevin-durant-blunt-message-suns-fans-rockets-trade\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">blunt message Durant had for Phoenix fans<\/a> over the weekend when he spoke with Kay Adams right after the trade was announced. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI doubt that,&#8221; he said. &#8220;They wanted me to go so I\u2019m glad they got what they wanted and I got what I wanted. We can move on, good luck to them going forward, and I\u2019ll always remember my time there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When you combine the two messages it sounds like it wasn&#8217;t all bad. Durant spent just over two seasons in Phoenix and while things didn&#8217;t go as well as anyone hoped, he performed admirably, averaging 26.8 points, 6.3 rebounds and 4.8 assists in 145 regular season games. <\/p>\n<p>More NBA on Sports Illustrated<\/p>\n<p>This article was originally published on www.si.com as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/nba\/kevin-durant-had-a-classy-message-for-real-suns-fans?utm_source=RSS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Kevin Durant Had a Classy Message for \u2018Real&#8217; Suns Fans<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>      <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kevin Durant during a Suns game this season. | Mark J. 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