{"id":88758,"date":"2014-10-04T12:28:34","date_gmt":"2014-10-04T19:28:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bilcomprd.wpengine.com\/?p=88758"},"modified":"2023-12-27T12:44:06","modified_gmt":"2023-12-27T20:44:06","slug":"kevin-durant-cant-palm-a-basketball-yes-this-is-a-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ballislife.com\/kevin-durant-cant-palm-a-basketball-yes-this-is-a-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Durant can't palm a basketball!? Yes this is a story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/r620-97d435eecc3db58391d763c69df63267.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-88952\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/r620-97d435eecc3db58391d763c69df63267.jpg\" alt=\"r620-97d435eecc3db58391d763c69df63267\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo be honest, I don\u2019t know why this is a story. But, yeah, I can\u2019t palm a ball.\u201d said Kevin Durant to Darnell Mayberry of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/newsok.com\/kevin-durant-insists-he-cant-palm-an-nba-basketball\/article\/5347769?custom_click=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the Oklahoman<\/a>\u00a0after looking at the picture above during training camp\u00a0and explaining that the ball was flat.<\/p>\n<p>Since Mayberry tweeted that he learned KD\u00a0couldn't palm a ball after the first media day, people have been Googling every pic they could find of KD holding a ball so they could prove that he was lying.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo, I can\u2019t,\u201d Durant, with a slight chuckle, again admitted. \u201cI can\u2019t. It\u2019s nothing I can control. You know?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He chuckled again.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know what else to say,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Although it's rare to hear about a player at his height, that throws down lots of dunks, not being able to palm a ball, there's actually been quite a few NBA players who have said they can't either. Charles Barkley, a league leader in dunks for a couple of seasons, couldn't palm a ball. But, he also rarely dunked with one hand. Former dunk contest champion Josh Smith supposedly couldn't palm a ball either and he does dunk a lot with one hand -- like KD.<\/p>\n<p>I hate to turn this into a KD\/MJ comparison but since we are on the topic of being able to palm a basketball, nobody, Dr J included, was better at <a href=\"https:\/\/ballislife.com\/1996-michael-jordan-ball-fakes-malik-sealy-best-ball-fakes-ever\/\">palming a ball to fake out or tease opponents than Jordan<\/a>. 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