The Warriors held an introductory presser today for Kevin Durant on Thursday afternoon, opening him up to the media for the first time since his decision to leave the Oklahoma City Thunder on Monday.
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Durant will now take a spot in the Golden State starting lineup and give bench boss Kerr plenty of egos and court minutes to manage in the upcoming campaign.
“With this in mind, I have decided that I am going to join the Golden State Warriors”, said Durant. Many are understanding. Many more are critical. The Rockets had won back-to-back championships in 1994 and 1995 but never made it past the West finals in Barkley’s three seasons with the team. It will be all excitement and thrills surrounding the team, but how do you figure out a way to get enough shots for four stars who love having the ball in their hands?
Now, though, with Kevin Durant signing with the Warriors, rumblings of the team potentially breaking their own 73-win record are heating up.
I think it’s a scapegoat move. Wherever you want them. I think it’s a scapegoat move to try to ease your way into a championship.
The Westgate Superbook of Las Vegas has placed the Warriors’ OVER/UNDER season win total at 68.5 games and are offering up “Will the Golden State Warriors win more than 74 games in the 2916-17 regular season” proposition. Everybody’s going to be making a lot of money, but other than five teams we’re going to be putting a shabby product out there. We could have played with some of those other guys and kind of cheated our way to a championship. He’s a great player and he’s a great guy.
Durant’s arrival immediately made Golden State the favourites to not only take the National Basketball Association crown for 2017, but also beat their all-time regular season wins record of 73.
“I would think they’re the favorite on paper but the National Basketball Association, as we’ve seen with the Miami Heat in LeBron’s first season, and Cleveland in LeBron’s first season – they both lost”. He said Durant is joining “a gravy train in a terrific Warriors team” and added he was disappointed from a competitive standpoint.
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Durant wants to win a title and doesn’t want to wait until he’s old (like Barkley did). “But every single day all I can control is how I work, I just can’t worry about the outside noise”. I think it started with LeBron going to Miami, and then you’ve seen Chris Paul, DeAndre Jordan, and Blake Griffin, and well, really, you saw it with Paul Pierce, Kevin Garnett, and Ray Allen, Rajon Rondo. The 2-year, $54 million deal includes a player option after the first year. After all, these curses are only as real as we make them. Like, ‘I don’t care.
