There's stoic, and then there's Kevin Durant.
Or, at least there was.
The typically unexcitable MVP candidate appears to be letting loose, relatively speaking anyway. It all started with his first career ejection on Jan. 2 in what became a rare OKC Thunder loss to the Brooklyn Nets:
Kevin Durant just got ejected. Hold up, what?
— chris palmer (@ESPNChrisPalmer) January 3, 2013
After picking up a third technical foul on Jan. 6 in an uneventful win against the Toronto Raptors, KD took to Twitter for a public mea culpa:
3 techs in 3 games, not like me...@kendrickperkins is a bad influence on my life lol jk..I will be better, sorry guys
— Kevin Durant (@KDTrey5) January 6, 2013
No apologies necessary. And certainly no need to eschew the newfound passion (via USA Today's Jeff Zillgitt):
"They should give me a reward for how many calls I think are good," Durant said. "But they penalize me for the ones I think aren't. That's part of the game. I have to calm down sometimes. I get too excited and too emotional in the game and it takes over for the bad when I get those techs."
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