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Brooklyn Nets star Kevin Durant says development, not titles, is what drives him now

Brooklyn Nets star Kevin Durant is no longer driven by championships. After all, he has won two. Instead, he says it's the desire to be at his best that fuels him.

"I wasn't expecting to be a happy human being from a title," Durant told ESPN's Rachel Nichols in an interview that aired Saturday on SportsCenter. "I was just expecting like, you know, the ending of a movie -- once you worked so hard and everybody tells you like, 'Yo, this is what you need to be working for, is this gold ball and these rings.