‘Open and Real’: Business Partner of Kevin Durant Gives an Inside Look into the Nets Hero’s Personality

Kevin Durant, despite amassing tremendous success and wealth to his name, has way too many haters. Well, it goes without saying that with immense popularity, comes a little animosity. But in the case of the Brooklyn Nets’ star, the gap becomes narrower with most people misunderstanding his character.

This claim gets more believable when coming from a person very close to KD and his day-to-day off-court working. 

Rich Kleiman and his assessment of Kevin Durant

Anyone who closely monitored the All-Star Game 2021 draft carefully would’ve noticed a character difference in KD. When LeBron James picked his team, he used a witty one-liner to introduce his picks. However, the Sniper denied taking that pain and simply named his choices. That’s very much KD, at times hyper, at times uncomplicated, and the other times, a complex personality.

So recently, ESPN’s Rachel Nichols questioned KD’s business partner and manager, Mr. Rich Kleiman, about the enigma attached to the star’s name. To this, the 44-YO businessman answered, “It’s funny because a lot of times people tell me they feel like they don’t know KD or they want to know the real KD. But, to me, I don’t know any other athlete that’s as honest and open and real and see what it is, he’s a human being. So he’s not an enigma, he’s real dude, he has real feelings, and we talk so much that it’s very fluid.” 

Rich is very intimately connected with KD on all the personal levels where he is a partner in all of KD’s ventures. So his words really mean business and they can help dust off some nuisances spread in Durant’s name. 

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The Brooklyn Nets star and his Twitter chatter

Kevin Durant is someone who has more tweets than career points (and he has close to 24000 of those). To some people, his tweets are mere shenanigans, and to some others, they are brutally sincere and highly interesting. 

But Mr. Rich described how none of it bothers his team and explained, “It’s not kind of a thing where we talk about something that happened on Twitter as much as like, that’s my man, you know. Regardless of what goes on, like we know who is he and he knows who he is and people that really know KD don’t get caught up in all of the rest of the drama that comes with it. But at the same time, we all understand it and he understands it.”

Be it the time when he ‘liked’ the Twitter post that mocked Stephen Curry, his beef with Kendrick Perkins, his comebacks at haters, or the more recent Michael Rapaport issue, KD’s Twitter has always been on fire. Still, nothing that can reduce or even touch the greatness of the 11x All-Star.

So you tell us, do you like or dislike KD? We will eagerly wait to read your comments.

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