As Kevin Durant continues to recover from his Achilles injury, he took some time to talk to J.R. Moehringer of the Wall Street Journal about life, joining the Brooklyn Nets, and everything else. Here are some things that stood out:
On his love/hate relationship with the trappings of fame the NBA has afforded him:
"Some days I hate the circus of the NBA. Some days I hate that the players let the NBA business, the fame that comes with the business, alter their minds about the game. Sometimes I don’t like being around the executives and politics that come with it.