{"id":176721,"date":"2025-07-02T22:49:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T22:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/176721\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T22:49:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T22:49:12","slug":"kevin-durant-sends-message-on-nfl-quarterback-after-malik-nabers-comment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/176721\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Durant Sends Message on NFL Quarterback After Malik Nabers Comment"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kevin Durant Sends Message on NFL Quarterback After Malik Nabers Comment<\/a> originally appeared on Athlon Sports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Houston Rockets All-Star forward Kevin Durant showed his appreciation for an NFL\u00a0rising star.<\/p>\n

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Durant, 36, spoke at the\u00a0FanDuel Boardroom conference<\/a> alongside FanDuel CEO Christian Genetski and New York Giants wide receiver Malik Nabers. Both athletes are FanDuel partners who helped advocate for the nationwide legalization of sports betting.<\/p>\n

However, sports betting has some concerns, such as losing a fair amount of money on unsuccessful betts, which Durant noted while talking about the fan and player experience the company created.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to see you succeed in your sports betting, and many people got emotional when they put these bets in,\u201d Durant said. \u201cA lot of times they ain\u2019t doing their research and I\u2019m holding people accountable on Twitter and they enjoy the fan and player experience because they get heckled by me.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Former Phoenix Suns forward Kevin Durant (35).Reggie Hildred-Imagn Images<\/p>\n

As the conversation continued, Durant talked about betting on his hometown NFL team, the Washington Commanders, who are NFC East division rivals to Nabers and the Giants. However, Nabers has a soft spot for Commanders starting quarterback Jayden Daniels because of their time together in college with the LSU Tigers (2022-23), where they took the sport by surprise and became NCAA All-Americans.<\/p>\n

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\u201cNah, it\u2019s hard to talk trash,\u201d Nabers joked. \u201cYou got my best friend at quarterback.\u201d<\/p>\n

Following Nabers’ comment,\u00a0Durant gave Daniels a shoutout<\/a> on X: \u201cYessir, big season ahead @commanders @JayD_5.\u201d<\/p>\n

Durant praised the Commanders quarterback after he led Washington to a 12-5 record and an NFC Championship game appearance in his rookie season. He\u00a0also threw for<\/a> 3,568 yards and 25 touchdowns en route to winning the 2024 AP NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year award in February.<\/p>\n

Furthermore, Daniels maintained a close relationship with Nabers throughout their rookie seasons, even though they now play for opposing teams. The Giants and Commanders met two times during the regular season, where the tandem took time to speak with each other and\u00a0exchange jerseys<\/a> before the opening kickoff of the first meeting in Week 2 of the season on Sept. 15.<\/p>\n

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Related: Bill Simmons Makes Bold Call on Kevin Durant\u2019s Future With Suns<\/a><\/p>\n

This story was originally reported by Athlon Sports<\/a> on Jul 2, 2025, where it first appeared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kevin Durant Sends Message on NFL Quarterback After Malik Nabers Comment originally appeared on Athlon Sports. Houston Rockets…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176722,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[38884,7,13729,734,18533,7211,4126,56,6,18534,38885,5433,111],"class_list":{"0":"post-176721","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-fanduel-partners","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-houston-rockets","11":"tag-jayden-daniels","12":"tag-kevin-durant","13":"tag-lsu-tigers","14":"tag-malik-nabers","15":"tag-new-york-giants","16":"tag-nfl","17":"tag-phoenix-suns","18":"tag-player-experience","19":"tag-sports-betting","20":"tag-washington-commanders"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114786085330838020","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}