The United States team has two more exhibition games scheduled before that start of the Rio Olympics. He was followed by Carmelo Anthony who notched 20 points and grabbed 5 rebounds, as per USAB.com.
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Durant finished with 13 points.
“It was unbelievable.” Durant said after the United States’ 50 point win over China on Tuesday, “The atmosphere was great, the energy was great and the fans showed me major love, so I appreciate that”.
Yet again, the box score wasn’t so pretty for China. NBA draftee Zhou Qi scored a team high 13 points. In contrast, Los Angeles Clipper DeAndre Jordan was booed, owing to the rivalry between the Warriors and Clippers. He emerged for pregame warmups to huge roars. One person held a sign that read, “KD is not a Villain”. Coach wants you to calm it down.
Chants of “M-V-P! M-V-P!” greeted Durant in the building where Stephen Curry has won the past two NBA MVPs, becoming this first unanimous victor last season. “I know he appreciated it very much”.
Green said recently in an exclusive interview with DraftKings that he sent a whole bunch of text messages to Durant once the former Oklahoma City Thunder star hit the open market.
Durant received a hearty welcome from a sellout Oracle crowd that included Steph Curry, Andre Iguodala and Bob Myers among others. “First-game jitters.’ But it was great to see”, Green said. Below are the highlights of the second USA-China game.
While that may present a tougher set of group games for Team USA compared to most years, they still appear too deep to be upset by perennial contender France, led by Tony Parker, or pesky Australia, powered by Andrew Bogut.
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Didn’t matter – Durant bolted out of the locker room at halftime straight to Curry’s courtside seat, and that’s when the embrace took place. There’s no reason to think he doesn’t fully grasp the gravity of leaving one Western Conference power for another, especially when they just played one of the great seven-game playoff series of our lifetime, but he still had to take the court Tuesday and begin the onboarding process of becoming a Golden State Warrior.
