{"id":547087,"date":"2026-10-04T11:14:02","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T09:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=547087"},"modified":"2026-10-04T11:14:04","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T09:14:04","slug":"durant-responds-to-wembanyama-hell-do-what-he-wants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/durant-responds-to-wembanyama-hell-do-what-he-wants\/","title":{"rendered":"Durant responds to Wembanyama: \u201cHe\u2019ll do what he wants\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kevin Durant was asked about Victor Wembanyama\u2019s recent comments, after the Frenchman ruled out the possibility of signing a deal with a sports betting company: \u201cAbsolutely not. Honestly, I think it\u2019s very sad to see some players promote it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Durant, who has a partnership with FanDuel, responded without directly addressing the Spurs star\u2019s stance: \u201c\u201cThat\u2019s Wemby, he&#8217;s going to do what he does. That has nothing to do with me. I don&#8217;t really think about that question at all, that&#8217;s not on my mind as much as his. People gonna do what they want to do.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-x wp-block-embed-x\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Kevin Durant was asked today about Victor Wembanyama&#39;s comments + Durant\u2019s partnership with FanDuel:<br><br>\u201cThat\u2019s Wemby, he&#39;s going to do what he does. That has nothing to do with me. I don&#39;t really think about that question at all, that&#39;s not on my mind as much as his. People gonna\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OvJ0RBr0to\">https:\/\/t.co\/OvJ0RBr0to<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CzBFdlo24Q\">pic.twitter.com\/CzBFdlo24Q<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Michael Shapiro (@mshap2) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/mshap2\/status\/2106082855147479259?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 2, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Houston Rockets star commented on the Frenchman\u2019s remarks opposing players promoting sports betting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":178,"featured_media":375532,"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":[399],"tags":[1607],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-547087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","tag-kevin-durant-en"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/02\/kevin-durant-team-usa-photo-fiba.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547087","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\/178"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547087"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":547088,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547087\/revisions\/547088"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547087"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=547087"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=547087"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=547087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}