During the past year, Kevin Durant has had to endure pretty much every iteration of front-runner jokes in human existence. During the ESPYs on Wednesday night, host Peyton Manning got in on the act and lobbed a grenade in Durant's direction.
"Our gymnastics team was so dominant, that Kevin Durant told me he wants to play for them next year," Manning said with a smile.
Durant, who famously signed with the 73-win Golden State Warriors last summer, didn't even pretend to be amused.
Kevin Durant is not impressed... #ESPYS pic.twitter.com/SAsNYOErvd
— ESPYS (@ESPYS) July 13, 2017
You can't blame Manning for taking the low-hanging fruit -- it's guaranteed laughs -- but you have to applaud Durant for not giving one of those gratuitous forced laughs that actors always use at awards shows.
Durant had to know that a joke would be made at his expense, so this was likely a planned response. It would have been better, though, if his mother Wanda was in on it as well. Instead it looks like she's laughing at her baby boy -- not with him -- which isn't cool at all.