And on the\u00a0Le Batard Show on Thursday<\/a>, Wright added that he actually believes he and Durant are similar.<\/p>\n\u201cI don\u2019t think he knows what it\u2019s like to be me, either,\u201d Wright explained. \u201cIf anything, we have a symbiosis, where neither one of us is the GOAT of our profession but deep down, we think we should be, and think we\u2019re a little underrated and disrespected. And so that\u2019s fine. There are critics of how I go about my business, that\u2019s fine.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Durant joked back that Wright had an \u201copportunity to move up\u201d on his all-time list of sports hosts, offering a spin on sports TV legacy debates, which Durant has long been critical of.<\/p>\n
Explaining the disagreement further, Wright said he believes Durant does not appreciate where Wright has him ranked among all-time NBA greats. Wright added that he thinks Durant is likely also \u201cupset\u201d by Wright\u2019s criticism of the burner-account scandal that appeared to knock Houston off course this season, as well as Wright\u2019s relationship with LeBron James, with whom he shares an agency.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think he thinks that I have historically underrated him,\u201d Wright said.<\/p>\n
\u201cTwo, I think he thinks that I give favorable opinions to guys that I might have a personal relationship with. And I think three, and my guess is (this is) the reason he picked Colin and me, is I think we were two of the most kind of loud voices that were like, \u2018Yeah that whole talking sh*t on all your teammates midseason and then the season going to hell thing, that\u2019s probably on you.’\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Out of nowhere this week, Kevin Durant took to Instagram to give his picks from a random graphic…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":788486,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3724],"tags":[7,938,3114,79877],"class_list":["post-788485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-basketball","tag-kevin-durant","tag-nick-wright","tag-the-dan-le-batard-show"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116932333128225593","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=788485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/788486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=788485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=788485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=788485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}