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Durant Dubs Bosh One Of NBA’s ‘Fake Tough Guys’

Posted on January 31st, 2011
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Karen


Yesterday (Jan. 30) Kevin Durant drew a rare technical foul in the first quarter of his game for jawing with Miami’s Chris Bosh. And that’s not all the mild-mannered Durant had to say.

When asked about the verbal spat between the two after the game, Durant didn’t mince words for Bosh. He called the former Toronto All-Star forward a “fake tough guy” who talks because he’s on a good team now.

“I was talking to my teammate and he decided he wanted to put his 2 cents into it. I’m a quiet guy, a laid-back guy, but I’m not going to let nobody talk trash to me. He’s on a good team now, so he thinks he can talk a little bit,” Durant said.

“There’s a lot of fake tough guys in this league and he’s one of them,” Durant added.


Durant says he was upset because Bosh got involved in his conversation with a teammate. Bosh says Durant was telling James Harden that next time, he should dunk on Bosh. Bosh had fouled Harden on the previous play to prevent a fast-break layup.

“I think he was telling Harden to dunk on me, or dunk the next one,” Bosh said before giving a cleaned-up version of the exchange. “I expressed that, `No, he’s not going to dunk that.’ And he expressed, `Yes, he is.’ It just kind of went back and forth.”

Durant said he considers Bosh “a cool dude” off the floor, but “once I step on the floor, all that stuff goes out the door.”

“I don’t think it was anything to get a tech over,” Bosh said. “It was just talking. He stood his ground, and I respect that.”

“All of us, we’re all so competitive, and when we get into circumstances in the fourth quarter, there’s going to be tough calls on both sides,” Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said.

(Well, competitive experiences DO activate testosterone.)

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