Kevin Durant Says First Title With Warriors Is Life ‘Defining Moment’

Warriors fans are convinced that Kevin Durant didn’t appreciate his time in Oakland. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Durant talked about his three years with the Warriors and the titles he won with the team. He won two titles, and the 2017 title was a defining moment for the superstar.

“It’s very rare in our lives when we envision and picture something and it comes together the perfect way you envision it,” Durant said to WSJ Magazine’s J.R. Moehringer. “[Winning a title] was the only time in my life that happened, and that summer was the most exhilarating time. Every day I woke up I just felt so good about myself, so good about life … That was a defining moment in my life—not just my basketball life.”

Durant talked about the way he felt in the Golden State. He didn’t fit in with the players.

“I came in there wanting to be part of a group, wanting to be part of a family, and definitely felt accepted,” Durant said. “But I’ll never be one of those guys. I didn’t get drafted there.… Steph Curry, obviously drafted there. Andre Iguodala, won the first Finals, first championship. Klay Thompson, drafted there. Draymond Green, drafted there. And the rest of the guys kind of rehabilitated their careers there. So me? Shit, how you going to rehabilitate me? What you going to teach me? How can you alter anything in my basketball life? I got an MVP already. I got scoring titles.

“As time went on,” he added. “I started to realize I’m just different from the rest of the guys. It’s not a bad thing. Just my circumstances and how I came up in the league. And on top of that, the media always looked at it like KD and the Warriors. So it’s like nobody could get a full acceptance of me there.”

One comment made the Dub nation angry. It’s about the Warriors’ offense.

“The motion offense we run in Golden State, it only works to a certain point,” he says. “We can totally rely on only our system for maybe the first two rounds. Then the next two rounds we’re going to have to mix in individual play. We’ve got to throw teams off, because they’re smarter in that round of playoffs. So now I had to dive into my bag, deep, to create stuff on my own, off the dribble, isos, pick-and-rolls, more so than let the offense create my points for me.”

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