Kevin Durant On If The Nets Are The Villains Of The NBA: "I Don’t Think We Take On That Mentality."

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As the newest and strongest NBA superteam, the Nets earned more than their fair share of haters this past season, and they made plenty of noise when the team was eliminated in the playoffs.

But when pressed if he "sees" his team as the "villains" of the league, Kevin Durant himself said that's not his mindset:

“I don’t,” Durant said, via Justin Barasso of SI. “It kind of looks that way, right? Our team wears all black and we kind of got three guys on the team that a lot of fans in the NBA don’t really like as much. It can seem that way, but I don’t think we take on that mentality. I think we come in and operate at a pretty smooth, easy, reserved level. We’re just very high-skilled guys, but I guess [from] the outside perception, it can seem that way. But for us, we just really enjoy to play every day.”

The answer was a direct response to comparisons to the Nets and the "New World Order" wrestling stable.

While it's no secret that Brooklyn is the NBA's most hated team, the players themselves clearly don't classify themselves as villains.

Whatever the case, and however the community perceives them, the Nets will be back on the world stage competing for a title in no time.