Part of the making of a super team is the cohesion between moving parts. While stacking talent is easy to do on paper, the talent is only as good as the result it delivers, making it a gamble to swap out a part for one relatively unknown and foreign to the system.
Kevin Durant was that missing, yet foreign part — purchased to fit into the locomotor that was a well-oiled, high-octane Golden State Warriors team that parted ways with many of their free agents this past offseason — most notably forward Harrison Barnes and center Andrew Bogut.
Upon his arrival, questions of shot selection and minute allocations immediately came to a rise, wondering how a team with three All-Stars could possibly welcome one of such stature into the fold.
Durant's transition was seamless, quickly buying into the ball-sharing concepts of the offense and happy to play alongside a team culture that embraced unselfishness and making the right basketball play.
Upon reaching the top of the mountain, the NBA Finals Most Valuable Player gave praise to his teammates, after giving proper due credit to Stephen Curry‘s 34-point performance.
“To do that as a group, call us a super team, and I go with 20 off the bench, you a call us a super team, but it's been a lot of super teams that hasn't worked, and we came together and we continued to just believe in each other and we sacrificed, and we're champions now,” he told reporters after a long locker room celebration, via ASAP Sports.
While there have been super teams that have fallen apart due to role envy or for a share of the spotlight, this Golden State team managed to keep the chemistry and even improve on it through the long regular season, not missing a beat despite Durant's injury in the latter part of the regular season and ultimately culminating in his first NBA title.
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