Kobe Bryant, the 5-time NBA champion who retired from the Lakers in April, was third followed by two other NBA Finals participants, Cleveland’s Kyrie Irving and Golden State’s Klay Thompson, both of whom will also play for the USA team in next month’s Rio de Janeiro Olympics. You can’t be a team with this much talent and avoid getting hated on.
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“We’ve got as many or more playmakers on the floor as anybody”, said Kerr, already planning his training camp strategy on the court and how to prepare his players for even further scrutiny.
“I said, ‘Let’s go if that’s what you want to do!’ I said, ‘You understand the backlash that’s going to happen?’ He said, ‘I’m ready for it.’ I was just happy that my son at 27 years old made a man decision. Wanna come with me?” “We live in this superhero comic book world where either you’re a villain or you’re a superhero if you’re in this position, and I know that, and I know I haven’t changed as a person”. “To play with them and play our style, I think that was attractive to him”.
“Like I said, I wanted a new chapter in my life”, Durant continued. “The relationships between me and this team doesn’t feel forced”. In his lone collegiate season at the University of Texas in 2006-07, Durant was named the National Player of the Year and earned the Adolph Rupp Trophy, Naismith Award and Wooden Award, becoming the first-ever freshman in NCAA history to win any of those awards.
Ayesha cheered on as her husband and the Warriors won an NBA-record 73 games this past season, but ultimately failed in their goal to capture a second straight National Basketball Association title.
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Not that Durant plans to skip town after one season. Maybe it’s a handful of millions less than what Oklahoma City could have given him, but clearly Durant prioritizes things above monetary figures. Durant led all scorers in the postseason with 28.4 points to go with 7.1 rebounds and 3.3 assists in 40.3 minutes over 18 games.
