The sports media celebrate Kevin Durant for being someone he isn’t.

LeBron stood accused of disloyalty and excessive immodesty, of being bad on television in the first degree, and the only debate about the Miami Heat’s new hood ornament was whether to chase him around South Beach with a pitchfork or a torch. And Durant? He was “soft-spoken,” “congenial, respectful,” “humble, loyal.” Kevin Durant had become the national sports unicorn.