Yahoo Sports NBA writer Vincent Goodwill discuss the recent comments by the Phoenix Suns superstar, his frustration around media coverage and the team’s struggles this season.

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VINCENT GOODWILL: KD, this is to Melissa Rowland from Fox Sports. Why are you continuously trying to create drama around my name for no reason? Why are you trying to make my life miserable? That’s the question. There is no need. Let’s just talk about what I see on the basketball court because the fan base wants to know how I’m thinking as a basketball player.

As someone who knows KD a little bit, I get why he’s frustrated, OK? Because he’s paired with Devin Booker and Bradley Beal, and Bradley Beal has a bad back. And then in his first game back after recovering from said bad back, he gets his ankle run under and misses more time.

You know how many minutes Devin Booker, Kevin Durant, and Bradley Beal have played together, y’all? 108 minutes together as a group. KD plays 37 minutes a night. Devin Booker playing 36 minutes a night. Bradley Beal is supposed to be there. Not playing those amount of minutes because those two aren’t supposed to play that amount of minutes. But they’re supposed to play a bulk of their minutes together to start the game and to finish the game. You’re supposed to be the most potent offensive group in basketball.

They’re a 500 team, and KD’s playing career basketball at 35 years old. KD is playing excellent basketball, and it’s not having an effect winning. Another team that he’s on where he can’t realize the full potential of everything that’s happening. Now granted, it’s going to be really hard for Phoenix to find the ancillary parts around those three guys because they take up so much salary cap space, and that’s the deal make with the devil when you bring in Bradley Beal on a supermax. But you want to have the opportunity to see it through.

And if you’re a 500 team right now, you damn right, I’d be frustrated. What’s wrong with being frustrated? If Kevin Durant wasn’t frustrated, do you know what we would be saying as a basketball media? Oh, man, he don’t want to win. He just want to sit with his boys and collect his money, and shoot and score. Like there is no winning for him in this. He should be frustrated. He has expectations.

So yeah, he knows his clock is ticking. He wants to win again. He wants to win a championship outside of Golden State. Hell, yeah, he should be frustrated. And have you seen the Phoenix Suns play? They don’t look like a cohesive unit. And it’s not just because of the injuries. It looks like it’s a group of guys playing playground basketball. My turn, your turn, your turn, my turn. And you can say what you want about Kevin Durant. He knows what winning looks like. He knows what a contender looks like. So if he’s frustrated and we’re psychoanalyzing his frustration, I say, yeah, let’s psychoanalyze the frustration. Because that means there’s a guy that wants to get better.