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Kevin Durant is coming after everyone who doubted Team USA.
After the team struggled during their exhibition games, Durant led Team USA to a gold medal with an impressive 29 point performance against France in the championship game.
🥇 OLYMPIC CHAMPS 🥇
The U.S. men’s basketball team earns its fourth straight Olympic gold medal with an 87-82 defeat of France 🇺🇸
Kevin Durant: 29 points pic.twitter.com/1GOA3la7dR
— Sports Illustrated (@SInow) August 7, 2021
Kevin Durant in Olympic gold medal games:
2012 London — 30 points
2016 Rio — 30 points
2020 Tokyo — 29 pointsBest player in the world. pic.twitter.com/UTyhKl7h1b
— StatMuse (@statmuse) August 7, 2021
After the game, Durant went on Instagram live with Draymond Green to fire shots at those who said Team USA wasn’t going to win gold at the Olympics. During the steam, Green took aim at ESPN’s Kendrick Perkins for “talking a lot of sh*t” about Team USA.
“I had to talk to my sh*t real quick”
KD and Draymond letting the doubters have it! 🤣🤣 pic.twitter.com/htDBi1A2vt
— Complex Sports (@ComplexSports) August 7, 2021
Kevin Durant: To everybody who said we were going to take the L.
Draymond Green: Kendrick Perkins you talk a lot of sh*t, a lot of sh*t act like you’re American.
Kevin Durant: They had some power rankings out and they had us fourth behind Slovenia…talking about they’re catching up to us, are you serious? This skill is unmatched…Shout out to everyone who won this gold, everybody that chipped in and helped out, we’re going to the press conference but I had to talk my sh*t real quick.