Paul Pierce Compares Kevin Durant to a Kid Who Joins a Gang for Protection
Retired Celtics great Paul Pierce just isn't with the old "If you can't beat 'em, join 'em'" adage. Thus, he couldn't co-sign Kevin Durant leaving Oklahoma City to join their West Coast rivals over in Golden State, after being eliminated from the playoffs last summer. He confessed that much during his regular appearance on ESPN's 'The Jump' on Tuesday, May 30, while siding with former coach Doc Rivers, who earlier in the day told ESPN's "Mike & Mike" that watching Durant's offseason move "was tough for anybody, anybody's that's competitive, to watch. He lost, and then he joined." I'm not a guy who goes into the neighborhood, gets beat up by the bully's gang, and then now I want to join their gang," Pierce said. "That's just not me; I wanna fight, let's go! I mean I'm gonna stand up for myself, that's just the competitive nature of where I come from, the era I grew up...