In a recent reflection on his illustrious NBA journey, the legendary Kevin Durant dropped a bombshell, revealing Durant’s NBA Love Affair with his Thunder days. Durant, a future Hall-of-Famer, reminisced about his nine-season stint with the Oklahoma City Thunder as his favorite era in the league.
Kevin Durant’s NBA Love Affair Revealed
“It has to be the OKC era because the moment of birth into the whole success I felt,” Durant revealed, and his words carried that distant quiet emotion. Your like a construction firm with the house foundation being the essential underlying platform. We were young and we were also fighting against those dynasties that had been almost unbeatable up to this point.
Durant’s sentimentality bloomed as he indirectly referred to the ferocious clashes against the basketball bulldog that the Lakers (fueled with the flame of Kobe), the Mavericks (empowering Dirk), and the Heat (tandemed by LeBron and Dwyane) were. “That’s when, I suppose, everything started rolling in,” his voice was sadness and reminiscences sprinkle before he said, “and I think the three or four of us, James (Harden), Russ (Westbrook), Serge (Ibaka), we as kids joined all together when we were 22 or 23 after that really inflammable fire.”
The senior player in the Thunder organization was obvious, as he rode on the vehicle to talk about his love for his teammates in terms of the brotherhood nature between them. “It was when I got older that I understood guys that are in their 30s now were like, we watched you guys play when you were in your 20s (standing in awe).” This was how Stephen Durant put it, expressing the industry’s current mastermind’s sense in the world.
Noticeably, though Durant’s journey didn’t turn out to be the happiest moment of his life as he encountered some controversial issues in it. The extremely mean-spirited rupture with the Thunder just before the news about his infamous trade to the Golden State Warriors was official tainted his otherwise pleasant memories. Nevertheless, strong resentment from the fans over his contaminated behave cast a shadow over his heartwarming experience in Thunder.
Suffering can be transmuted into wisdom, and as the proverbial saying goes: time heals all wounds, and this is linked to Durant’s therapeutic reconciliation with his past because of his mature perception on his NBA voyage. They may continue to be bitter, but Durant’s retrospection is a legacy ascare impression that the Thunder left on the basketball history will live on.
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