Kevin Durant’s aggressive restlessness has led him to a new frontier in the NBA, to a franchise that was very recently among the league’s worst.
Dan WolkenIn the span of a few hours Sunday, an Instagram account linked to Kevin Durant’s sports business-themed channel went from about 30,000 followers to nearly 200,000. When word got out that Durant’s free agent decision would be announced there, it seemed Durant was going to use his platform of “The Boardroom” to reveal something unique.Surely, Durant will explain at some point soon why he left the Golden State Warriors after a year of speculation that he would do exactly that.
For all Durant did to help the Warriors secure back-to-back titles — he was hands-down the best player for two straight playoff runs in 2017 and 2018 — he never shook the narrative that he was a luxury item until the Warriors fell apart without him this year against the Toronto Raptors. Durant won championships playing alongside Steph Curry and Klay Thompson, but he never won hearts and minds. You could see by this season it wasn’t enough.
But it’s also a huge opportunity for Durant, if he can come back as good as he was before the injury, to take a team that wasn’t particularly close to winning a championship and transforming it in his image.
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