Report: Kevin Durant Used to Canoodle With "Bachelorette" Rachel Lindsay

The Finals Game 1 hangover has been steeped in the (potentially fictitious, contentious) relationship between Kevin Durant and Rihanna. But apparently—according to an anonymous source of US Weekly—KD was a part of a very real (romantic, this time) relationship with another woman making headlines: The Bachelorette's Rachel Lindsay.

There is a segment of the population, including sports writers apparently, that goes fucking bonkers for the Bachelor franchise, which includes The Bachelorette. Don't ask me why. Maybe because this survival-of-the-fittest, cutthroat gameshow setup is the only way to translate issues of love and romance to us meatheads. I certainly don't watch it—probably because I don't have a TV. But in any event, this puts us squarely inside the concentric circles of the Bachelorette/Sports Twitter Venn diagram.

One anonymous source on the VICE Sports staff (we too can play this game, US Weekly) watches the show and informed me that if this story checks out, KD dated a real keeper. The staff member is quoted as saying that Lindsay is "too good to be on the show, even though she's good on the show." She "rolls with the punches," and "laughs a lot." This is what our insider told (lowercase) us.

Anyway, according to US Weekly's "inside" source, Durant and Lindsay used to date in college at the University of Texas, Austin, but broke up when Lindsay went to law school, and were "pretty serious." At the time, Lindsay was receiving her B.S. in Sports Management. (This is where a tabloid would put in a euphemism for "studying sports" after class.)

If you're really curious about what Kevin Durant's dating life is like, you could just go to his old Black Planet page for the throwback way he marketed himself to the world back in high school—before Lindsay. Note that he listed himself as 6'10", but officially goes with 6'9" in the NBA. Someone's trying to pad their resume.

Anyway, Lindsay apparently had to date these chumps on the show:

Hard to say if being in a relationship with Durant was better or worse than whatever reality TV show carnival displays of male preening yielded Lindsay in the long run. But one thing's for sure: Rihanna wouldn't put up a fight for KD if she were on The Bachelor. Because Rihanna doesn't give a fuck.