Almost three years ago now, Kevin Durant sacrificed money and fame to take a backseat to Stephen Curry on the NBA’s best regular season team of all time.
Now a two-time champion, Durant opens up on his decision and how he’d coped with the backlash he knew was inevitably going to follow him to Golden State.
“I came here knowing for a fact, that every media member, every fan was going to call me every name in the book for however long I was here and I was going to take the brunt of everything. But I wanted to be a part of this so bad, I didn’t give a f–k,” Durant told Michael Lee of the Athletic (subscription required).