Kevin Durant fires back at Charles Barkley's 'bus rider' critique | NBA | FIRST THINGS FIRST

Charles Barkley didn't mince words after the Brooklyn Nets were eliminated in the first round of the playoffs in a Boston Celtics sweep. Barkley called Nets' player Kevin Durant a 'bus rider', going on to say " If you ain't driving the bus, don't walk around talking about you a champion." Durant, or course, didn't take that lying down. With plenty of time on his hands now that the Nets' season is over, KD took to social media to post all of the times in his career Barkley had been a 'bus rider'

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listen durant very interesting picture choices by durant because he didn't choose the time in barclays career where he was the unquestioned bus driver and the best team he was on phoenix so listen i i want to talk a little barkley and then bigger picture here bro because charles barkley in 1993 with the best team he was ever on to get to the nba finals threw up go look it up kiddos of 44 and 24 in a game seven to make the nba finals in those nba finals he averaged 27 13 and six and they lost in six on a last second shot and guess what he got criticized for not doing enough and for not closing out on paxson that that paxon shot barkley got lost got blown by defense collapses and then unfortunately barkley kind of made the same mistake four years later on the stockton shot against houston before he ended up or against utah once he was with houston but but at that point he wasn't the bus driver so barkley knows very very well you can be a great player and with