Durrant's Teammate's comments

I don’t really mean to nitpick a college freshman, but is that really being “humble” or is that playing to your fans?

i hope we don’t get shafted again this year

That is the worst news ever.

Most College players say they are staying until they have to declare. Ray Allen always said he was going to stay all 4 years and then he left early. I’m not saying Durant is definitly comming out, I just don’t think you can be sure until he either declares for the draft or the deadline passes.

what is he supposed to say to his teammates? there is nothing left for durant to do in college basketball personally. he was definitely the best player this year. the guy could not be more dominant. i would say the chances of him staying are at most 1%.

At some point a player like Durant will decide to stay another year, and then blow out his knee about halfway through the following season. The palyer and his advisors can share in the Darwin award.

I just hope that when it happens, the injury won’t prevent him from working in the carwash or McDonalds.

At some point a player like Durant will decide to stay another year, and then blow out his knee about halfway through the following season.

Great thing about insurance is he’ll still have the money.

http://proxy.espn.go.com/chat/chatESPN?event_id=14817

"daniel (san antonio): When will you make your decision on whether or not you’ll come back next year?

SportsNation Kevin Durant: I’ll make my decision at the end of the year when we finish all our games. I’ll sit down with my coaches and family and make my decision. I know it will be a hard decision. "

From yesterday’s ESPN chat WITH DURANT.

It’s not like he announced anything. It should read. Augustin: I’ll stay another year…………..and Durant told me he will too.
It’s bad news either way but its not concrete. I always thought 1 of them would stay but I thought it was gonna be Oden, mostly because of his hand.

what’s the matter w/u jeffffff? headline should read dj augustin says durant’s staying another year. way to give a guy a heart attack over here.

Insurance covers the medical bills, but not the lost multimillion dollar NBA contract, the sneaker contract, the endorsements…. He can kiss all of those goodbye. No one gives a hoot about 20 year-old ex-jocks who walk with a limp.

And even if the player comes back from the injury he can probably forget about the big money. I give you as Exhibit A Curtis Sumpter of Villanova, who was probably one of the 2-3 best freshman in the country until he got hurt. If he had come out in 2004 after his freshman year he was a lock for the first round.

Sumpter only has himself to blame if he didn’t insure himself… great college athletes who understand how much they are worth take out insurance policies on their knees, back, etc. Of course I feel bad for the guy, but still… it’s common practice now.

If Durant or Oden return to school it’s quite simply a colossal error in financial judgement because insurance is a hundreth of what they could make with endorsements and contracts. It’s also a colossal error in basketball judgement because at their talent level they’ve learned all they’re ever going to learn from the college game. Furthermore it’s academically non-sensical as they are not getting a degree in this one additional year and the knowledge gained in a few more semesters of watered-down jock curriculum is pretty minimal.

If they do choose to return it would be in the face of overwhelming logic and a display of poor judgement on their part.

I can guarantee that Oden will NOT be going back to Ohio State next season. This is coming from someone very close to Oden himself.

If either of the two stay, it will be Durant. Dont read too much into what he says, as a lot can change between now while hes having some fun playing with his college teammates, and a few weeks from now when hes staring at potentially a boatload of money.