Durant doesn't like 'Durantula' nickname

If you could go ahead and stop referring to former league Most Valuable Player Kevin Durant as the "Durantula," that would be great.

As he told CSN Bay Area's Henry Wofford on Wednesday, the new Golden State Warriors forward doesn't like the nickname and, in all likelihood, would prefer if people refrained from calling him that all together.

It appears that the 28-year-old is against all nicknames that aren't his initials, as it was in 2014 when he forswore the ultra-cool "Slim Reaper" moniker.

Durant was actually sued back in 2012 in federal court by a guitarist named Mark Durante, who filed an injunction stopping him from using the "Durantula" name as he said he had used it as part of his performance persona for years. The former Oklahoma City Thunder star's reps claimed he was never officially using it, though.