Kevin Durant and Chris Paul will be facing their former teams.
The Warriors, like they have so often over the last decade, will open their season in the national spotlight.to league insider Shams Charania. It will be Kevin Durant’s first game in front of Bay Area fans since leaving the Warriors in the summer of 2019 after Golden State. He has played once at Chase Center since then, in 2021 in front of an empty arena due to COVID restrictions.
Coach Steve Kerr’s starting lineup will be a major focus for observers, as Paul has never come off the bench in his 18 years of regular-season and playoff games, but the Warriors’ starting lineup from last season — the league’s best five-man group by net rating — remains intact. Early last season, the Phoenix-Golden State matchup featured a memorable moment, as Klay Thompson wasafter talking trash to Devin Booker, reminding him that Thompson has four championship rings even as the Warriors star struggled shooting while Booker finished with 34 points.
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