OKC Thunder NBA star Kevin Durant has made a decision to change teams, and has already signed with the Golden State Warriors.
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Barkley then pulled the ultimate parent move; he’s not mad, he’s just disappointed. Additionally, it is not out of the question that if Durant wins a few championships in Golden State he will return back to Oklahoma City in hopes of bringing them a title just like Lebron did with Cleveland.
Golden State Coach Steve Kerr thinks Durant will have no problem fitting in. They will, however, have to say goodbye to a number of players who will now be moved on to make way for the arrival of the 27-year old. They just wanted to let me know how much I would fit in with their group personality-wise. “I’m pretty sure Patrick Ewing and Karl Malone and John Stockton-we think we’re pretty damn good”. The guys all love to play basketball, they love each other, they love the environment. Most of those guys just bus riders. Everybody wants to win. I will forever cherish the relationships within the organization – the friends and teammates that I went to war with on the court for nine years, and all the fans and people of the community. Going under the radar for most of the season, the team nearly managed to knock off the Warriors in the Western Conference Finals after defeating the San Antonio Spurs, who were widely favored to beat them. But I really care about the bus drivers, because on every team, there’s a bus driver. The seven-time All-Star and four-time National Basketball Association scoring champion has averaged 27.4 points per game over the first nine years of his career. If Golden State wins again, it’ll be like, ‘Well, we expected to win. “We would be very formidable”, Barkley said in July 1996, a month before he was dealt.
The 2014 MVP is joining a team that won the title in 2015, and won 73 games previous year before dropping Game 7 of the NBA Finals.
Durant’s decision was right for him, and it’s right for the Warriors. The Thunder are now left wondering if they’re good enough to win it all and whether they should consider trading superstar Russell Westbrook before he can leave as a free agent after next season.
Barkley doesn’t like this whole process. We had great years, man. And we’re going to have three or four competitive teams.
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Apart from Thunder fans, some people are upset with the fact that Durant is seemingly taking the easy way out and joining the team with the most lethal roster. It’s not like I play the same position as him and we have to figure out how we’re going to play together.
