{"id":129007,"date":"2025-03-16T17:57:51","date_gmt":"2025-03-16T21:57:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/?p=129007"},"modified":"2025-03-16T17:57:51","modified_gmt":"2025-03-16T21:57:51","slug":"kevin-durant-mike-budenholzer-heated-exchange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2025\/03\/16\/kevin-durant-mike-budenholzer-heated-exchange\/","title":{"rendered":"Durant and Budenholzer Have Another Heated Timeout Exchange"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Phoenix Suns are struggling and it makes everybody on the team nervous. Kevin Durant<\/a> came to Phoenix to chase a championship title. Yet, this season, the Suns do not look like a playoff team, let alone a championship contender. Right now, they are out of the play-in seeds. The stress and anxiety reached a new height against the Los Angeles Lakers on Sunday afternoon.\u00a0Durant and Mike Budenholzer had another heated exchange during a timeout.<\/p>\n

Durant and Budenholzer Have Another Heated Timeout Exchange<\/h2>\n

Some ten days ago, the cameras caught Durant and Budenholzer exchanging words during a timeout. After that incident<\/a>, KD defended the relationship. He said,<\/p>\n

“He allows me as a player on the team, a veteran on the team, to voice my opinion. If we both didn’t care, we would never have stuff like that, you know what I’m saying? So I’m glad that the win is going to sweep all of that stupid stuff under the rug. Because people couldn’t wait. Even some people in Phoenix, in here, couldn’t wait to run with that and say, ‘This is the reason why the team ain’t playing well, because of that specific thing. But come on, man, that shows that me and Bud really care about trying to right this ship and trying to win basketball games.”<\/p>\n