{"id":287846,"date":"2022-08-02T13:15:27","date_gmt":"2022-08-02T11:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=287846"},"modified":"2022-08-02T13:15:27","modified_gmt":"2022-08-02T11:15:27","slug":"mike-james-reveals-kevin-durant-called-him-before-nba-playoffs-saying-nets-fitting-to-lose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/mike-james-reveals-kevin-durant-called-him-before-nba-playoffs-saying-nets-fitting-to-lose\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike James reveals Kevin Durant called him before NBA Playoffs saying &#8216;Nets fitting to lose&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mike James revealed that he got a phone call from Kevin Durant before the NBA playoff started in which KD admitted that the Brooklyn Nets had zero chance in the postseason.<\/p>\n<p>AS Monaco guard Mike James was a host of Players Choice podcast and he talked about Kevin Durant.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">&#8220;[Kevin Durant] called me before the playoffs start, he&#8217;s like, &#8216;Yeah, I&#8217;m gonna be there [at your playoff game] in like a couple weeks. We fitting to lose.'&#8221; \ud83e\udd2f<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mike James<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PlayersChoice_?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@PlayersChoice_<\/a>, h\/t <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/blbuckets3?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@blbuckets3<\/a>)<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/f6wQY4wzHF\">pic.twitter.com\/f6wQY4wzHF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ClutchPoints (@ClutchPointsApp) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ClutchPointsApp\/status\/1554132511357386753?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 1, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Per <a href=\"https:\/\/basketnews.com\/news-175948-mike-james-reveals-kevin-durants-bad-feeling-about-the-nets-playoff-chances.html\">Basketnews<\/a>, \u201cI only knew Blake (Griffin) before I got there. Kev was one of the people that vouched for me and for Brooklyn to sign me. So, when I got signed, and we were going on the road, we liked a lot of the same stuff. We ended up hanging out with each other every time we were on the road. He got the big suite, so we just went in there, hang out, play the game, kick it, talk. We got close.<br \/>\nWhen I went back overseas, it was like, \u2018Alright, whoever\u2019s season ends first, the other one is going to come and watch the playoffs.\u2019 When I first said it, I thought, \u2018OK, you\u2019re going to be in the [NBA] Finals, I\u2019m going to get to the Finals, that\u2019s lit!\u2019.<br \/>\nSo, when they were trash and losing, I called him one day and said, \u2018So, you know what this means, right? You\u2019re coming to my playoff game.\u2019 He was like, \u2018There\u2019s no way I\u2019m coming to your playoff game.\u2019<br \/>\nAnd then, like a week later, he called me before the (EuroLeague) playoffs started, and he was like, \u2018Alright, I\u2019m going to be there in a couple of weeks. We\u2019re fitting to lose.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Durant then flied to Europe to watch his friend Mike James in action in <a href=\"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/monaco-forces-a-first-ever-game-5-against-olympiacos-in-front-of-kevin-durant\/\">EuroLeague playoffs.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike James revealed that he got a phone call from Kevin Durant before the NBA playoff started in which KD admitted that the Brooklyn Nets had zero chance in the postseason<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":269206,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[199,399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-287846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-euroleague","category-nba"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/04\/U4Q9538.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287846"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=287846"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=287846"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=287846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}