Kevin Durant is still trying to find his footing in Phoenix. As the NBA All-Star is on the fourth team of his career. However, Durant still has good feelings for the Brooklyn Nets. The team that sent him to the Suns. But things didn’t go well at all during Durant’s time in Brooklyn. The Nets had one of the greatest teams ever assembled and ended up with nothing. With injuries and experiments with James Harden and Kyrie Irving failing. There was nowhere for the Nets to go. Trading Durant and starting over seemed like the sensible move.
Durant claims to hold no ill will with his former team. In a recent interview with The Athletic, Durant had plenty to say about his former team. “I hated it had to go down like that. I wasn’t trying to prove the Nets is a s–ty organization,” Durant stated. “Certain sh– just didn’t work out. I understand that. I’m not here trying to prove that the Nets was wrong, I think they did amazing by me the whole time I was there, not just with the trade.”
Kevin Durant Chooses To Be Kind Toward Nets
Durant’s assessment of his time in Brooklyn is spot on. Every decision made felt like it was snake bit from the start. KD even dealt with the most serious injury of his career from the start. The star forward injured his Achilles the year before joining the Nets. Undeniably, the Durant experience in Brooklyn will be forgotten by most. As for those who were a part of it, the experience will be more of what could have been. Durant now seems thrilled to be in Phoenix. The team will be chasing their first NBA Championship this post-season.
Kevin Durant has no hate in his heart for the experience he endured. So the Brooklyn Nets have moved on, and so has Durant. Some experiments fail, and that was the case in Brooklyn. However, if all the variables could have worked, the team was championship material. What are your thoughts on Durant’s time in Brooklyn? Is it the biggest missed opportunity in NBA history? Should Durant have known it was doomed to fail? Please let us know in the comment section below. For all the latest NBA news, continue to check out HNHH.
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