OT Kevin Durant: ‘It’s easy to be the best player when you don’t have good players around you’

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Golden State Warriors forward Kevin Durant is your NBA Finals MVP for the second time. For many, Durant is the second-best player in the NBA, right behind Cleveland Cavaliers star LeBron James.

And while James played with one of the worst rosters to ever make an NBA Finals appearance this season, no doubt Durant did so while playing with one of the best.

After the conclusion of the Finals, some chatter has begun about who the top player in the NBA will be heading in to next season, clearly with some folks believing that Durant has taken over The King’s throne.

Meanwhile, Durant gave comments to Yahoo! Sports saying that he believed it was actually harder to be seen as the best player on the planet when playing with multiple all-stars.

Via Yahoo! Sports:

“I feel like it’s easy to be the best player when you don’t have good players around you. I feel like it’s harder to stand out when you have great players around you,” Durant told Yahoo Sports. “I pride myself on standing out wherever I am. I pride myself on working hard wherever I go. And I feel like these guys embraced me and I feel like I’m a Warrior.”

Is this self-promotion or simply a small dig at LeBron? Is it both? It’s hard to say, but you can sort of see Durant’s point. All throughout the playoffs, it was apparent that Durant could get just about any shot he wanted at any time. Although the Warriors sometimes relied on Durant to a fault during the playoffs, there was no doubt that both he and Stephen Curry were the two most important offensive players for the Warriors.

Does playing with better teammates make it harder for you to stick out? That logic makes sense, although I think you would be hard-pressed to tell me LeBron didn’t have one of the best seasons ever, even if he was playing with a rotating gang of bench guys.

 

When KD talks this is what I hear...

 

lol, as time goes by I'm glad we didn't draft this total fucking dipshit.

 

Oh and KD it’s easier to win championships when you bail to the team you just go whipped by after being up 3-1 isn’t it. I wish he could just own what he did instead of be a fake tough guy about it. Least LBJ owned up that the decision maybe could’ve been handled better. KD is so fake. Great player, but his act since joining up with GS has just been so annoying.

 

Durant has never had to carry a team....he played with James Harden and Russel Westbrook...had talent around him...then went to a team stacked with superstars....unlike the guy who willed a lesser team to the finals pretty much by himself

 

Put KD on CLE in place of LBJ and that team doesn't make the Finals.

 

And mid season when GS was mediocre when Curry was out, was busy telling us that Curry was the system, so Curry is really what makes GS go not KD

 

Take KD off the Warriors and they still win the NBA Championship.

 

Let me tell you something about Kevin Durant.

Fuck Kevin Durant.

 

What a bullshit statement.

Yeah, it's super easy to be the best and have great games when the other team only has to focus on stopping you. It's super hard to have good games when you've got four other players on your team who can score and spread the floor for you. Yeah. That makes perfect sense.

Just when I thought I couldn't dislike that douche more. SMH

 

Not really convinced they even make the playoffs with KD. Yes hes a great scorer, like LeBron, but unlike LeBron, is a shitty passer/playmaker for his teammates. Durant is a great player, but will never reach LeBron's level. Ever.

 

So funny the if you can’t beat em join em dude that choked is sti trying to convince how tough he is... gah I need to get off this thread this dude annoys me.

 

And the year, he had to play without Westbrook, when the Grizzlies beat OKC, he was HORRIBLE.

 

Finals? They don't even make the playoffs and if they do, they certainly don't make it out of the first round.

 

Want to be randomly irritated and perplexed? Read ANYTHING Kevin Durant says.

 

Eh - it's still the East. I think KD is good enough to at least get that team to the POs, and maybe even the 2nd round. No way they beat BOS though, and probably not TOR or PHI.

 

A shitty passer/playmaker? He did average 5.4 Assists per game this year. While thats far less then LBJ's 9.1, I wouldn't call his playmaking from the forward spot "shitty". That would be like calling James's 0.9 Blocks per game shitty because Durant averaged an outstanding 1.8

I don't get the dislike for James or Durant. Both are all time talents with decent enough temperments for big time jocks.

STOMP

 

James complimented Durant. Durant dissed James. I know which one I'd rather root for.