OKC Thunder forward and reigning MVP Kevin Durant is on the March cover of GQ magazine. Inside KD speaks with interviewer Zach Baron about a bunch of things both good and bad including his “Slim Reaper” alias.
“He rejects his nickname, the Slim Reaper, as ungodly. He’s not here to be the guy of, “I guess, death,” as he once said. Grew up in full fear of God, in fact. He was raised to think: “If I do something wrong, I’m going to hell.” Then he met Carl Lentz, who ministers to Justin Bieber and sometimes leads prayers before Knicks games. Carl taught him God was about love. Before, “I felt like I had to follow the Ten Commandments. But we don’t live by that no more. We live by the blood of Jesus. That’s how I feel.”
So stop that. Durant also talked about being a jerk on the court.
“When I’m on the court,” he says, “I’m a total asshole. I’m a dick. I don’t talk to the other team. If I fall on somebody, I throw them to the ground, I’m not helping them up. I just feel like it’s a war mode. Like, they’re trying to kill me, but I gotta kill them before they kill me.”
Check out the rest of this really good piece on Durant over at GQ.com.
