Kevin Durant Said Warriors Felt Like Underdog Franchise When He Signed With Them

Kevin Durant left Oklahoma City to join one of the NBA’s very best teams. Durant surprised everyone and sullied his reputation in the process by signing with the 73-win Warriors in 2016. He won championships his first two seasons with Golden State, but despite that success, he never seemed happy.

Durant left the Warriors after just three seasons.

Durant didn’t feel like he was going to a super team, rather an underdog franchise.

Durant spoke on his decision on the “Million Dollaz Worth of Game” podcast:

“That first experience of me going there, it was just like, “Nah, I need to experience that again. And I want to be on that stage again.” And that run that we went, from 2012 from the first round to the Finals, that was the most fun I had playing basketball. And I was like, “I need this experience again. I don’t care who it’s with. I want some dudes that want it, too. I just need to experience that again.” Because I felt more alive. I felt like this is what I should be doing on Earth at this point, is playing the game. So, when I experienced that run, I’m like, “I’m craving for that again.”

I seen that that’s a great team that wants to win, fun environment, great city. Oakland is like D.C. It felt like I was riding through Southeast.

The organization never been a winning organization. When I was in the league, nobody liked Golden State. So, it felt still like an underdog to me. Because I’m looking at the totality of the franchise. I ain’t looking at what happened these last five years. You’ve never been a perennial winner in the NBA – from the 50s on up. So, I’m like, “D***, that’s an underdog franchise to me. This feels good,” like, “S***, this feels like where I’m supposed to be.” It ain’t L.A. It ain’t New York. It feel like where I’m supposed to be. And I think they’re going to give me that experience that I want, that run of like, “S***, we’re about to go on a run trying to win 16 games.” I wanted that feeling again. We did that s*** three times. I was on that high three times. Man, s***, I don’t want to go nowhere else. I wanted to do nothing else in the NBA besides go on a run like that. We might not win it. But to know we can go on a run to be one of the last teams, that s*** is fun.”

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Durant is just trying to convince people he didn’t take a shortcut to a title.

Not happening. We know those Championship weren’t earned the right way.

What a cupcake.

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