Kevin Durant announced his divorce from Oklahoma with a 351-word blog post on Independence Day.
The Fourth of July is a holiday meant to be spent in public. Oklahoma is a state of small towns in middle America. They do the Fourth bigger and prouder than most: Parades before noon, cookouts after.
Durant’s declaration of NBA independence published right between the two – tweeted out from his account at 10:38 a.m. local time, titled ‘My Next Chapter’ – dropping on the state like a hammer, buzzing through phones like wildfire into gathered communities. A morning of celebration turned into an afternoon of mourning.