To think, it was only 10 months ago that Kevin Durant opened Twitter — his preferred social media platform — and sparred with Nuggets fans while he was in Paris, preparing for one of the most important basketball games of his life.
Team USA had pulled off a miraculous comeback to thwart Nikola Jokic and the Serbians one day earlier in the Olympic semifinals. As the gold medal game loomed for Durant, he noticed a faction of online Nuggets fans who had been rooting against the Americans. “Cornballs,” he called them during an entertaining exchange.