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The C.J. McCollum saga is an interesting twist in the Golden State Warriors and Kevin Durant’s fight against negative public perception. McCollum doesn’t deserve to be dragged as thoroughly as he has been — his comments regarding the front-running nature of Durant have been relatively sober and are widely held — but the episode illustrates the state of play, so it needs to be brought up again. The charge, one made daily since Durant declared he would join the Warriors in July 2016, is that KD joined an overpowered enemy once he found he couldn’t beat them. This charge is literally true — Durant’s Thunder fell one maniacal Klay Thompson run short of beating the defending champion Warriors in 2016 — but also, unfortunately, carries a lot of gross baggage.
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