The Failure of Kevin Durant Teams: Brooklyn & Phoenix Lessons
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00:05 >> There's context for why we was a failure, right?
00:07 >> Well, but that's not why I said.
00:09 >> I'm just saying.
00:10 >> No, but do you think about that?
00:12 >> No.
00:13 >> Could have been at all?
00:14 >> No, I mean, it's just a pointless exercise in my opinion to think about what
00:18 could have been.
00:19 I mean, what happened, that's what I'm thinking.
00:21 That's what I thought about what actually happened, the reality of it.
00:26 We didn't have enough time together, that's just it.
00:28 Guys wanted to go their separate ways.
00:30 We tried our hardest to salvage everything and bring everything together.
00:35 We had three or four different teams when I signed here until when I left.
00:40 But at the end of the day, I enjoyed coming into work, playing for,
00:46 being a part of this community and playing and representing Brooklyn.
00:50 Regardless of what went on, what's said or how I felt, I still came to work.
00:56 >> Listen, I don't have a problem with the guy that he liked Brooklyn and
01:01 that he liked the organization.
01:03 Everyone said he was cool.
01:04 All the workers that worked at the Barclays liked him.
01:07 He was friendly to everybody, cool to everybody.
01:09 But the reality is this, is that they put those three superstars together and
01:13 they failed miserably.
01:14 Now, he's got it again with Beale and Booker, and they never get it done either.
01:22 Now, look, do you really think the Suns are winning at all?
01:25 I doubt it.
01:26 And then the other one is, the only one he ever won with was Curry.
01:29 Curry got him MVPs and chips.
01:33 He got rings playing with Steph Curry and Clay Thompson.
01:36 Before Clay Thompson got all tore up with his knee and Achilles,
01:40 he played on the best team in the NBA, and that's why he's got chips.
01:44 The team he was on was the best.
01:46 The teams he played on in Brooklyn and Phoenix that he's playing on currently
01:49 are just superstars that are never happy.
01:53 Superstars that are never happy.
01:54 Even though their bags are the size of garbage trucks,
01:59 the money that they make, these guys.
02:01 They make enough money to fill up a garbage truck in the back,
02:06 filled with cash, and they're still not happy.
02:10 It is amazing to me, cuz when you're a kid playing ball,
02:12 when you're just a kid playing ball, when he was growing up in the Beltway,
02:16 playing ball in DC, he never dreamt that he would have this much effing money.
02:22 And then you get it, and you're still miserable.
02:25 Then I put it on you, you're just a miserable person with money.
02:28 But when you play with a great team, he won chips.
02:32 He was never on a great team in Brooklyn.
02:33 He said he played on four teams.
02:35 He's playing on a team now that isn't great either.
02:37 But he played on a great one in Golden State, and
02:40 he left on his own accord cuz he wasn't the man.
02:43 Even though he won two MVPs, he wasn't the man, Curry's the man.
02:47 That's Curry's team to this day.
02:48 >> It certainly is.
02:51 >> No, and I think that this team, like you're saying,
02:53 is gonna be the same fate as Brooklyn.
02:55 >> Wow. >> They'll be out first round,
02:58 second round.
02:59 They're not gonna win any NBA championships.
03:01 Eventually, they're gonna start not liking each other, Booker, him.
03:05 >> It doesn't matter.
03:07 >> That'll all break up eventually as well.
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