Shannon Sharpe’s role as a Fox Sports commentator and hot-take artist calls for him to have a lot of opinions about sports and engage in fake arguments with Skip Bayless.
But those fake arguments are supposed to be centered around actual, real-life sports topics. That didn’t quite happen on Monday when Sharpe framed an entire take around a fabricated quote wrongly attributed to Kevin Durant.
It was all about Durant putting himself ahead of LeBron, but again, Durant NEVER said those words.
Durant, who is very much online, called Sharpe out for the mistake, and they had a back-and-forth on Twitter that ultimately resulted in Sharpe hitting the block button on Durant.
But I’m sensitive pic.twitter.com/ui2pSX6tCi
— Kevin Durant (@KDTrey5) April 13, 2021
Shortly after being asked about why he blocked the Nets star on Twitter, Sharpe offered his explanation.
I’m not gangsta, but I’m not going bck and forth with KD and lose my job either. I’ve had disagreement with other athletes, ppl b4 , we handled it like adults and moved on… “ADULTS” https://t.co/BYJrCxSpfj
— shannon sharpe (@ShannonSharpe) April 13, 2021
Basically, he didn’t want to engage in the conversation with Durant anymore. Sharpe wanted to take this conversation to a private domain instead of having it play out publicly on social media. Durant, though, pointed out to Sharpe that the entire beef stemmed from something Sharpe said publicly on his nationally televised show that wasn’t true.
Sharpe and the producers with Undisputed should have been issuing a retraction — not tweeting stuff like this:
Y’all remember the fake account when KD said: now everybody wanna play for the heat and Lakers? Let’s go back to being competitive and going at these peoples. Then joins 73-9 warriors and builds Nets into a superpower with Kyrie and Harden. OMG😭 https://t.co/SjU18X9XfE
— shannon sharpe (@ShannonSharpe) April 13, 2021
But evidently Durant’s reaction warranted on block on Twitter in Sharpe’s mind instead of the apology that Durant deserved.
