{"id":738047,"date":"2017-09-08T16:50:36","date_gmt":"2017-09-08T20:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/?p=738047"},"modified":"2017-09-08T16:50:36","modified_gmt":"2017-09-08T20:50:36","slug":"durant-trolls-his-cupcake-critics-by-actually-baking-cupcakes-showing-off-new-shoe-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/durant-trolls-his-cupcake-critics-by-actually-baking-cupcakes-showing-off-new-shoe-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Durant trolls his &#8216;cupcake&#8217; critics by actually baking cupcakes, showing off new shoe (PHOTOS)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oklahoma City Thunder fans may still think Kevin Durant is a bit soft around the edges, but the Warriors superstar had no problem embracing the &#8220;cupcake&#8221; label en route to winning his first title.<\/p>\n<p>And now he&#8217;s using that moniker to profit off &#8212; rather than bring him down &#8212; which is pretty smart if you think about it.<\/p>\n<p>Durant showed off his new shoe, the\u00a0Nike\u00a0KDX sneaker\u2019s red velvet cupcake edition, and they&#8217;re pretty sweet. Notice the laces, which resemble cupcake icing.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Cupcake sneakers for Kevin Durant \ud83e\udd14\ud83e\udd14\ud83e\udd14 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bkDMC923Ys\">https:\/\/t.co\/bkDMC923Ys<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Bl2TbCEVsB\">pic.twitter.com\/Bl2TbCEVsB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; SoleCollector.com (@SoleCollector) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SoleCollector\/status\/902556991347802113?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 29, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>KD then baked red velvet cupcakes with Buzzfeed, so take that, haters. He even poked some fun at them in doing so.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy favorite memory of red velvet was being called a cupcake every time I touched the ball in Oklahoma City,&#8221; Durant said. &#8220;That was fun. That\u2019s why it was so funny to us after we won the basketball game. It was kind of a little jab to the fans in Oklahoma City, but it\u2019s all fun and games.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BYtV_MsnNwt\/<\/p>\n<p>Gotta love KD, and also, I&#8217;m now hungry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oklahoma City Thunder fans may still think Kevin Durant is a bit soft around the edges, but the Warriors superstar&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":738049,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[703639074,231608556],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.2 (Yoast SEO v22.2) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Kevin Durant trolls his &#039;cupcake&#039; critics by actually baking cupcakes, showing off new shoe (PHOTOS) - The Sports Daily<\/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:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/durant-trolls-his-cupcake-critics-by-actually-baking-cupcakes-showing-off-new-shoe-photos\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Kevin Durant trolls his &#8216;cupcake&#8217; 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