Kevin Durant resisted Wednesday’s loss to the 76ers, a defeat that could ultimately cost Nets home advantage, and Chris “Mad Dog” Russo had a big problem with that decision.
The former WFAN talk show host, who now works for SiriusXM, tore the Nets and their star apart for skipping the showdown, although Durant just came back from a hamstring injury that took him nearly two months.
Let’s go and tell [former Knicks coach] Pat Riley, ‘Hey Pat, no [Patrick] Ewing tonight. I know you play the Bulls and [Michael] Jordan, but Ewing will succeed because his knees hurt, ” Russo said hyperbolic. ‘There were many nights in many a dressing room that Ewing had to talk to the media with ice cold knees. … Every game sat there with his ice on his knees, and he played night after night after night after night after night! Played his ass! Night after night! … And I’ll tell you something now, Ewing wanted to play! “
He went on with other players from earlier eras who wouldn’t miss a game, such as Jordan or Paul Silas or John Havlicek.
“Twice the player who is one of these guys. It makes me sick, ”Russo said. ‘How about telling Durant,’ I’m playing! Get out of here! ”
Russo also pitched a dig at Durant for his Instagram feud with actor Michael Rapaport.
Instead of fighting Michael Rapaport, how about telling Durant crazy [Steve] Nash and his crazy owner, who pays him $ 40 million, and his GM [Sean] Marks, who’s crazy [Gregg] Popovich school, how about Durant just say ‘give me that crazy uniform, I’ll play tonight,’ ”he said.