Does anyone know how we will remember Kevin Durant in 20 years?
As we will remember:
As one of the best talents in the history of basketball, as a walking basket, as an indefensible player, as a clutch shooter with which any coach would target the last shot in a game.
How we will not remember:
As a leader, as the player who gave him the responsibility of the team and the others would follow him, as an alpha male. As someone who did not escape from one place to another seeking acceptance.
Harden’s arrival in the Nets is fascinating, it becomes by far the most interesting narrative in the league this season and gives the Eastern Conference a much greater appeal. The Brooklyn team, eternally inconsequential, has decided to burn all their ships to win it this season, for them it is now or never and I think it is the right decision. Since the Nets reached the finals with Kidd and Carter no one has paid attention to them. Now most want a league final against the Lakers promising very high audience levels
But back with Durant, wasn’t he supposed to once and for all want to be the alpha male of his team? It was clear that Irving was in a casting role in the Nets, which would be Robin for Batman but as someone said now with the arrival of Harden he has become the butler Alfred for Batman and Robin. However with the arrival of Beard, it is not possible to say who is the leader of this team.
Durant left the Thunder at the time after losing the 2016 conference finals to the Warriors, finals that by the way Oklahoma won 3 games to 1 and that Golden State bounced back. KD decided to go with whoever defeated him, joining Curry in a decision marked as controversial and weak. True in the Bay he won a couple of titles and was a MVP of finals but never won what he was looking for: recognition as a leader because in reality this was not his team.
He left Golden State to command HIS team in Brooklyn and ended up in it, meeting with more complicated personalities, bigger egos, more complicated and openly sending the signal that he needed more help to win.