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Which Team Do You Associate Kevin Durant With the Most?
Sports Illustrated
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2/1/2024
Kevin Durant could go down as an all-time great player that isn't truly assoociated with any one organization.
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Kevin Durant's had one of the strangest careers
00:02
for an NBA superstar I can remember.
00:04
He's almost a man with no home.
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He returned to Brooklyn,
00:07
but obviously that was later in his career
00:09
that he was even on the Nets,
00:10
and now he's on the Suns.
00:11
Nobody really counts the titles
00:13
that he won with the Warriors to the same effect
00:15
had he won where he originally started,
00:18
with the Oklahoma City Thunder.
00:20
That is where he could have built his legacy, I suppose.
00:23
So he's gonna go down as an all-time great player.
00:26
You can't take that away from him,
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'cause that's just a true statement.
00:29
He's an all-time great player,
00:31
but I don't know what team I most associate him with.
00:34
- Depends on what you're talking about.
00:36
Are you talking about his success or failures?
00:38
If you're talking about success,
00:39
then yeah, I'm gonna associate you with the Warriors,
00:40
because you got two titles, two finals MVPs.
00:43
If we're talking about failures,
00:44
which people tend to bring up more with him than anything,
00:47
well, I can look at the Nets as a failure.
00:49
I can look at his last year with the Thunder as a failure.
00:52
It's funny, I don't look at his overall stint
00:54
with the Thunder as a failure,
00:55
but leaving the way that he did to go to Golden State
00:57
was an absolute blunder.
00:58
So if I'm associating him that way,
00:59
then yeah, that was a big miss.
01:02
But to your point, he's weird.
01:03
He's definitely top 15, top 16 all-time.
01:07
But if I was to envision him in a jersey
01:10
to say this is his one signature moment,
01:13
I don't know if there is one.
01:16
I just feel like he's an all-time great player,
01:17
but to your point, he doesn't really have a home.
01:20
- He was beloved with the Thunder for a while there,
01:23
almost positioned as the anti-LeBron,
01:25
but then he goes to Golden State
01:26
and everybody viewed him differently
01:27
because we knew they were gonna win the championship.
01:30
Then he goes to Brooklyn
01:31
where that was supposed to be his team.
01:33
And by the way, I think he had maybe his best playoff run
01:36
with the Nets, but asks out of that situation as well.
01:40
So I don't even know if those respective fan bases
01:43
know how to treat him.
01:45
Thunder fans don't like that he left.
01:47
There was the whole cupcake thing.
01:48
Maybe time has healed that a little bit.
01:50
Nets fans didn't really know how to accept him.
01:52
He legitimized the franchise in a way, but obviously left.
01:56
And then Warriors fans, he was only there
01:58
almost like a hired gun, if you will.
02:01
And the Suns thing is new.
02:03
- Right, I have no idea.
02:08
Like what if he's with Phoenix for four years?
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I feel like that would just be such an outlier.
02:14
Like I don't know, it's like,
02:15
I can only see him there for maybe a year
02:17
or two years tops, that's just his thing.
02:20
It's weird.
02:21
And it's funny because LeBron's left teams,
02:23
but because LeBron has so many signature moments
02:25
on every team he's played for,
02:26
and this is like, it doesn't matter
02:28
who you most associate him with
02:30
because he's had monumental moments with each team.
02:33
But KD is just like, I feel like I'm still searching.
02:35
- Yeah, LeBron has won with each team he's been on.
02:38
Eventually, obviously when you count going back to the Cavs
02:40
and I think that answers the question KD asked himself,
02:44
why aren't I in the GOAT debate?
02:45
Because he never won as the guy for a franchise
02:48
because he did it on Steph Curry's team.
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