Kevin Durant had loads to say when Staff USA confronted South Sudan of their second recreation of the Paris Olympics on Wednesday.
The South Sudanese workforce has emerged as one of many nice sporting underdog tales, however they had been at all times going to be combating an uphill battle towards Staff USA, and Kevin Durant was positive to make their lives even more durable.
Whereas capturing a pair of free throws, Durant taunted South Sudan head coach and shut pal Royal Ivey with some pointed trash speak through the recreation.
The long run Corridor of Famer may very well be heard telling Ivey on a minimum of two events, “Y’all n**fuel ain’t robust”.
KD informed them they ain’t robust 😂 pic.twitter.com/I1MU3l0G43
— LEEZUS (@AndrewLeezus) August 1, 2024
Durant and Ivey had been teammates on the Oklahoma Metropolis Thunder and are shut associates to this present day, so that is probably just a few pleasant competitors and nothing really hostile.
Nonetheless, the South Sudanese workforce would have good purpose to disagree with Durant’s feedback. They’ve arguably proven extra toughness of their unlikely journey to Paris than every other workforce. That a lot was clear when Royal Ivey lately opened as much as reporters about a number of the challenges his workforce has confronted.
“We don’t have the pleasure of getting a gymnasium, dorms, and different amenities,” Ivey stated. “We had a troublesome coaching camp in Rwanda, then traveled to Spain, shifting round so much, taking lengthy flights, and giving up exit rows to my 7-footers. These are the issues folks don’t speak about. They don’t see us getting delayed for seven hours within the airport whereas we’re in Chad.
“Luol Deng has been funding this factor for 4 years out of his personal pocket,” Ivey added. “He pays for gyms, accommodations, aircraft tickets — all the pieces. Kudos to Luol and the workers. We wouldn’t have been in a position to put this workforce collectively with out them.”
After starting their debut Olympic marketing campaign with a win over Puerto Rico, after which dropping to the US, South Sudan will play Serbia of their closing pool recreation on Saturday at 3pm ET.
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