CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The irony wasn’t lost on Kevin Durant as he walked down a back hallway at the Spectrum Center, exiting the building following a successful debut as the newest member of the Phoenix Suns.
Back when he was in his final season in Golden State and soon-to-be-teammate Kyrie Irving was still in Boston, the two were in that very back hallway on All-Star Sunday and internet detectives determined Irving gave Durant his elevator pitch for the two to team up in Brooklyn following that season.
Durant chuckled but said that wasn’t the case, that the two friends were joking about something else.