Durant will sign a two-year, $54.3 million contract with the Warriors, according to ESPN. Opening the door to find Curry, they were overjoyed, including a kid who fell straight backwards and fainted, as reported by Sporting News. Turns out that he is a businessman, and his decision to leave Oklahoma and sign with the 73-win Golden State Warriors was a business decision.
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Reports have detailed that the Warriors’ pitch to Durant was winning championships. “I think we compliment each other because we both can play off the basketball, we both can shoot, we both can make plays”.
“I wanted to see those guys face-to-face”, he said. “I feel excited about this opportunity”.
“I’m disappointed like I was disappointed when LeBron went to Miami. It was organic, it was authentic, it was real”, Durant said.
But I really care about the bus drivers, because on every team, there’s a bus driver.
Despite these facts, former National Basketball Association players Charles Barkley and Reggie Miller, both current National Basketball Association analysts for TNT, sent some serious vitriol towards Durant for his decision to leave the Thunder for Golden State.
However, many say that Durant wouldn’t have opted to go to San Francisco if the Thunder won the championship this year.
The same thing happened with Iguodala, who got close with Durant while the two played with Team USA together back in 2010. While Barkley’s hot take on Durant is lukewarm and rather contrarian, the overriding feelings surrounding Durant’s decision aren’t: Does Kevin Durant’s new spot on the Warriors feel unfair? I didn’t change as a person. You have to assume he, too, wants to win a championship, and if the Thunder had trouble attracting free agents when Durant was there, forget it now.
Even before Durant came aboard, Golden State had a trio of stars in Stephen Curry, Klay Thompson and Draymond Green.
This, he said, is the harder route – “It was time for me to try something new, try a new challenge”.
He knew it would have been “easy to go back to something you’re comfortable with”.
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The Warriors held a commanding 3-1 lead in the best-of-seven NBA Finals against the Cleveland Cavaliers, but unthinkably were unable to close out the series as they became the first team to squander such a lead, missing out on a second consecutive championship. Hopefully I did, hopefully he understands and I’m sure we’ll talk again.
