Kevin Durant is Players’ Tribune deputy publisher, which is pretty ridiculous by Cindy Boren

There’s a new name near the top of the wildly bloated Players’ Tribune masthead.

Get this: Kevin Durant, deputy publisher.

Derek Jeter’s publication, designed to give athletes the chance to “write” pieces without the bother of going through the filter of ink-stained wretches and the people who edit them, announced the addition of the Oklahoma City Thunder star, who seems to have rocketed past Kobe Bryant — the editorial director — on the masthead of mumbo jumbo.

Just what does deputy publisher mean? Well, you know where to go when Durant, who can become a free agent after the season, decides where he’ll play next. That’s for sure. In spite of Caroline Wozniacki’s suggestion, he won’t really be proofreading.

https://twitter.com/CaroWozniacki/status/647057625603899392

Here’s how the masthead looked in July, when SB Nation’s Rodger Sherman broke it down:

Derek Jeter: Founding Publisher
Kobe Bryant: Editorial Director
Kevin Love: Senior Editor
Andrew McCutchen: Senior Editor
Russell Wilson: Senior Editor
Blake Griffin: Senior Editor
Danica Patrick: Senior Editor
David Ortiz: Editor At Large
Chris Long: Social Media Editor
Elena Della Donne: Contributing Editor
Tiger Woods, Contributing Editor
CJ McCollum: Contributing Editor
Jeremy Guthrie: Contributing Editor
Michael Carter-Williams: Contributing Editor
Paul Pierce: Contributing Editor
Tyson Chandler: Contributing Editor
Julius Thomas: Contributing Editor
Kevin Shattenkirk: Contributing Editor
Jose Bautista: Editor Colaborador
Steve Nash: Senior Producer
Matt Harvey: NYC Bureau Chief
John Urschel: Advanced Stats Columnist
Spencer Dinwiddie: Facial Hair Consultant

Durant, on Facebook, seems to promise to be a real hands-on, hard-working deputy publisher even though he now has been fully cleared for his full-time job, playing in the, you know, NBA.

[Durant fully cleared to play in his walk year]

“I look forward to working with Derek Jeter to build a place where athletes can have our say, feel safe that nothing will be distorted, and give you guys a better look at who we are,” he may or may not have written for himself on Facebook. “Stay tuned…”

Being a deputy publisher can be a demanding job, anywhere but the Players’ Tribune. Still, we’d love to see “DNP–on deadline” beside Durant’s name on the Thunder’s game summaries.