Draymond Green’s Controversial Kyrie Irving-Kevin Durant Statement
Many people in the NBA consider Kevin Durant one of the greatest scorers to play in the NBA, and many people consider Kyrie Irving the most skilled player. Draymond Green has a controversial opinion about the two that may upset some stans.
On the newest episode of the Draymond Green Show, Green revealed why he thinks Kevin Durant isn't actually the best scorer and gave a detailed reason why. Firstly, he wanted to address that it wasn't meant to be taken as shade toward Durant.
"The world will take this in like the wrong way and try to make it something it's not, when it's actually a compliment... I said Kyrie Irving is the scorer that the world thinks of Kevin Durant. What I meant by that was there are some things at times that you can do to Kevin to make it a little tougher on him. Why, because he's seven feet and he handles the ball a lot. There are times because he's seven feet, if you time it right, you can pressure up and press up into Kevin and make things a little bit tougher. He has to turn his back or something, just get him out of rhythm a little bit."
When it comes to Kyrie Irving, Draymond Green believes there's absolutely nothing players can do to stop him. Kyrie has so many options to score that there isn't an actual way to shut him down, you can only try to get him to take a tough shot.
"Kyrie Irving, you can't do anything to make it hard on him, Green said. "You can't make the game tough for Kyrie. He's one of the best three-point shooters, he's one of the best mid-rangers, if not arguably the best, he's arguably the best finisher in the NBA. He has floaters with either hand, he can finish with either hand at the rim, Kyrie can also switch and shoot a midrange jump shot with his left hand... There's actually nothing you can do to stop Kyrie from scoring. You just try to do all you can to make him take a tough shot and then you gotta live with the results."
Kevin Durant has more than 11,000 career points than Kyrie Irving. In the same way that Irving is impossible to stop, so is Durant. However, if there's a player who knows the difference between the two, it's Draymond Green.
