Jabrill Peppers has some strong feelings about Kevin Durant's critics
It seemed like everyone with a Twitter account fired off hot takes about Kevin Durant joining the Golden State Warriors.
The haters screamed “what a traitor” or “how could he take the easy way out?” Search “Durant” on Twitter, and you’ll get pretty much every opinion imaginable.
One of the millions with strong opinions on the matter was Michigan do-it-all junior Jabrill Peppers. The former five-star recruit doesn’t often take to Twitter to rant. But this subject obviously struck a cord.
So what makes Peppers’ hot takes different from the other millions? Well, he talked about the lack of parallels to the NBA and college football and how business was ultimately what made the decision.
Michigan fans might be interested in the semi-rant he went on:
https://twitter.com/JabrillPeppers/status/750004040696725504
He responded to someone who tweeted at him “not that but if you lose a national championship to a team 2 years in a row you gonna transfer there to win or beat them?”
https://twitter.com/JabrillPeppers/status/750004975074480128
Then his mentions blew up:
https://twitter.com/JabrillPeppers/status/750005361491349504
https://twitter.com/JabrillPeppers/status/750007440150827009
https://twitter.com/JabrillPeppers/status/750007976803663873
there is no such thing as loyalty. Its business. They quicker people realize it, they will get out of their feelings quick!
— UMRocks (@MichiganManInFL) July 4, 2016
https://twitter.com/JabrillPeppers/status/750009059395375104
https://twitter.com/JabrillPeppers/status/750012511467036673
https://twitter.com/JabrillPeppers/status/750012991714787330
https://twitter.com/JabrillPeppers/status/750013460944125952
There was actually a lot more, but that was the gist of it. To see every Peppers tweet related to the matter (there was around 20), scroll through his feed.
Not to look into Peppers’ tweets about making business decisions — he figures to have one to make about the NFL at season’s end — but it’s interesting to get a college athlete’s take on the sports story of the summer. Peppers knows what it’s like to go through the crazy recruitment process, which had similarities to the one that Durant went through.
But, as Peppers said, the two are different situations.