Kevin Durant could go down as an all-time great player that isn't truly assoociated with any one organization.
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00:00 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.
00:06 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,
00:27 '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?
02:11 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.