{"id":105639,"date":"2025-10-10T09:27:03","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T09:27:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=105639"},"modified":"2025-10-10T09:27:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T09:27:19","slug":"durant-shows-love-kevin-durant-shocks-fans-by-giving-unexpected-high-praise-to-the-cowboys-despite-his-rival-fandom-proving-even-nba-superstars-cant-resist-dallas-swagger-ll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=105639","title":{"rendered":"DURANT SHOWS LOVE Kevin Durant shocks fans by giving unexpected high praise to the Cowboys despite his rival fandom proving even NBA superstars can\u2019t resist Dallas\u2019 swagger..ll"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-featured-container-id\">\n<div id=\"post-featured\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Kevin-Durant.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 820px) 95vw, 780px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Kevin-Durant.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780 780w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Kevin-Durant.jpg?quality=15&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1100 1100w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Kevin-Durant.jpg?quality=35&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1350 1350w\" alt=\"Kevin Durant Has Surprisingly High Praise for Cowboys, Despite Rival Fandom\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" \/><\/figure>\n<div>\n<p>Getty<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Durant was acquired by the Houston Rockets in the offseason.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Dallas Cowboys will have a tough game two Sundays from now against a very good Washington Commanders team. The Commanders have dealt with some injuries throughout the year, but currently sit in second place in a strong NFC East and are 3-2. With the hope that the Commanders will play the type of football they should with Jayden Daniels on the field, things should be on the rise for them moving forward.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, the Cowboys deserve a bit more credit than they\u2019ve been given so far this year. At times, the Cowboys haven\u2019t looked great, but they\u2019ve had some impressive wins. While the Cowboys certainly aren\u2019t the best team in the NFL, some believe they deserve more credit than they\u2019ve been given, including NBA star and current Houston Rockets forward Kevin Durant.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hate to say this because they\u2019re our rivals, and I don\u2019t like them at all, but the Cowboys are a team that is better than their record,\u201d Durant said on the \u201cUp &amp; Adams Show.\u201d \u201cI think they\u2019re better than what they have shown. Some of the outcomes. Ties, they\u2019re supposed to win that game. Losing to the Bears. I just think they\u2019re better than what they have shown.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI respect Jerry Jones and the talent they get in there; I respect how Dak has improved and where he has come from at Mississippi State to what he is now. CeeDee Lamb is my dog. I love those players and how they progress; I don\u2019t like the shield but the players themselves. I see how a lot of those guys develop and I appreciate it.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Cowboys\u2019 Dak Prescott Is Playing at a Top Level<\/h2>\n<p>Durant is correct in some of his thinking, considering the Dallas Cowboys have played well for certain parts of the year. Outside of a disappointing loss against the Chicago Bears, a team that\u2019s improved from prior years, the Cowboys have been very competitive. They lost to the defending Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles by four points, tied with the Green Bay Packers, and quarterback Dak Prescott is looking better than ever.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Is Jerry Jones Holding the Cowboys Back?<\/h2>\n<p>\u201cI like Dak. I think he\u2019s better than people give him credit for. But I think injuries have plagued him. I have no issues with him. I think Jerry Jones will always hold them back for some reason. As much as he wants to win, I just don\u2019t know why he does some of the things he does. I\u2019m going to call them pretenders,\u201d he said on \u201cChannel Seven.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s tough to argue that Jones holds the team back at times, given what everybody just saw with the Micah Parsons trade, but ultimately, it\u2019s on the players to go out there and do the job. The Cowboys have a good enough roster to compete, especially if the defense can play up to a certain standard.<\/p>\n<p>Jon Conahan covers the NBA and NFL for Heavy.com. Since 2019, his sports coverage has appeared at Sports Illustrated, oddschecker, ClutchPoints and Sportskeeda. More about Jon Conahan<\/p>\n<h2>More Heavy on Cowboys<\/h2>\n<p>Loading more stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NBA star Kevin Durant shared surprising praise for the Dallas Cowboys, calling them better than their record despite being a rival fan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":105640,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nfl"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>DURANT SHOWS LOVE Kevin Durant shocks fans by giving unexpected high praise to the Cowboys despite his rival fandom proving even NBA superstars can\u2019t resist Dallas\u2019 swagger..ll - NEWS USA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=105639\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"DURANT SHOWS LOVE Kevin Durant shocks fans by giving unexpected high praise to the Cowboys despite his rival fandom proving even NBA superstars can\u2019t resist Dallas\u2019 swagger..ll - 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