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Kevin Durant doubled down on his assertion that no person pressured him into returning to the NBA Finals prior to suffering a season-ending Achilles tear that put an end to his stint with the Golden State Warriors. The now-Brooklyn Nets star went on ESPN’s First Take to clarify what transpired in June after coming back […]

Brooklyn Nets forward Kevin Durant was asked to name his top five players in the NBA during a visit to ESPN’s “First Take.” While the injured star didn’t technically commit to naming his top five, he did say the top five players he enjoys watching, starting with teammate Kyrie Irving, LeBron James, James Harden, Joel […]

Kevin Durant expressed his initial reaction to watching former Golden State Warriors teammate Stephen Curry break his left hand during Wednesday’s game against the Phoenix Suns. The now-Brooklyn Nets star admitted it was a tough blow to watch his former teammate exit the game with the injury. “Luckily, it wasn’t anything more serious than that, […]

Brooklyn Nets superstar Kevin Durant joined the set of ESPN’s “First Take” on Thursday morning. Amid his wide-ranging interview, the former No. 2 overall pick admitted that his in-game argument with Draymond Green played at least a small role in his decision to leave the Warriors. A brief look back at the incident before we […]

Year one of the Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving era in Brooklyn will be devoid of Kevin Durant — as the 2013-14 NBA Most Valuable Player Award recipient is expected to miss the 2019-20 season due to an Achilles tendon injury. In the meantime, the Brooklyn Nets will look to build off their 2019 playoff appearance. […]

Kevin Durant teamed up this offseason with his good friend Kyrie Irving on the Brooklyn Nets, sending the Golden State Warriors scrambling for a back-up plan, which they found in the form of a sign-and-trade for D’Angelo Russell. However, recent news surrounding Irving makes him seem like a somewhat volatile character, though having “mood swings” […]

Brooklyn Nets superstar Kevin Durant likely won’t play this season, but he’s keeping tabs on the entire league. One player KD has noticed early in the season is Detroit Pistons point guard Derrick Rose. Speaking at the Forbes Under 30 Summit in Detroit on Tuesday, Durant said Rose — the youngest MVP in NBA history […]

Kevin Durant may have just joined the Brooklyn Nets in the past offseason, but the 10-time All-Star is already dreaming about competing for a very different squad in the future. Durant, 31, revealed to former Oklahoma City Thunder teammate Serge Ibaka his desire to play for the Spanish club FC Barcelona. When word reached across […]

Brooklyn Nets superstar Kevin Durant told Toronto Raptors big man Serge Ibaka on his cooking show that he wants to finish out his career in Barcelona and experience EuroLeague basketball. Barcelona head coach Svetislav Pesic addressed Durant’s comments on Tuesday: “I’m not surprised,” Pesic said, per Mundo Deportivo. “He knows the basketball situation outside of […]

Kevin Durant’s venture to join the Brooklyn Nets will give him the opportunity to once again form a team from the ground up after spending three seasons with a well-constructed Golden State Warriors roster. Yet the two-time Finals MVP doesn’t have any delusions of making the Nets a supernova of a team like the Warriors’ […]

Kevin Durant’s adjustment to a new franchise can’t be understated. While he chose to trade a potential run at more championships for a chance to build something new with the Brooklyn Nets, adjusting to the culture will take some compromise. Not only will Durant have to listen, but also be willing to change some of […]

Kyrie Irving, Kevin Durant, and DeAndre Jordan all came together this past summer and joined the Brooklyn Nets. The Kyrie-KD-DJ team-up idea apparently first was broached when Irving suggested they do so during the 2016 Olympics. ESPN’s Jackie MacMullan detailed how Irving planted the seeds over three years ago in Rio de Janeiro: One of […]

Los Angeles Lakers icon Kobe Bryant shared his thoughts on the NBA offseason, which featured tons of player movements that created several formidable star duos. Kobe, however, particularly singled out Kevin Durant’s injury as one key event that changed the landscape of the NBA. To recall, Kevin Durant suffered an Achilles tear in the NBA […]

Kevin Durant is one of the most talented basketball players of this generation, and it’s kind of hard to envision him playing elsewhere outside the NBA. As it turns out, the two-time NBA Finals MVP has aspirations of taking his talents overseas someday before he decides to hang-up his sneakers for good. Sitting down with […]

Bob Myers and the Golden State Warriors don’t see the decision Kevin Durant made to leave the franchise to sign with the Brooklyn Nets this summer as an indication that KD was upset at the organization. Durant signed a four-year deal with the Nets after spending the previous three seasons with the Warriors. There was […]

Kyrie Irving had another remarkable performance on Friday night for the Brooklyn Nets as he led his team to its second consecutive victory to the start the new season in a 113-109 victory against the New York Knicks. Following the game, Irving described the type of atmosphere he experienced during his first taste of the […]

Kevin Durant’s departure from the Golden State Warriors was a bittersweet moment for Bay Area fans. His arrival in 2016-17 produced back-to-back NBA titles, so at the end of the day there were no harsh feelings when the injured forward packed up for Brooklyn. To make things worse, though, All-Star shooting guard Klay Thompson could […]

Los Angeles Lakers point guard Rajon Rondo is a straight-talking kind of guy, and he has an opinion about stacking teams. The four-time All-Star recently joined Jemele Hill on her Unbothered podcast. Amid their wide-ranging discussion, Rondo noted his disdain for Kevin Durant’s decision to join the Golden State Warriors in the summer of 2016. During […]

The Brooklyn Nets have been New York’s most competitive team in recent history, but even after netting a star duo of Kyrie Irving and Kevin Durant, the latter doesn’t think their recent success will be enough to convert loyal New York Knicks fans. Unlike Irving’s opinion that the Nets have become New York’s team now, […]

Brooklyn Nets superstar small forward Kevin Durant is a big fan of Los Angeles Clippers shooting guard Lou Williams. Durant, one of the best players in NBA history, says Williams is a Hall of Famer: “I mean Lou Will’s probably the No. 1 guy. I feel like he’s a Hall of Famer,” Durant told Quentin […]

Lonzo Ball is getting a new lifeline after being traded to the New Orleans Pelicans, now able to kickstart his career after two disappointing years with the Los Angeles Lakers. Brooklyn Nets star Kevin Durant noted Ball has been the victim of a hype train his father LaVar built, but players don’t really have a […]

Nearly a year has passed since the infamous tiff between Draymond Green and Kevin Durant in the visitor’s locker room of Staples Center after a loss to the Los Angeles Clippers early last season. Green was quick to apologize and mend fences with his former Golden State Warriors teammate, but in retrospect he admits he […]

Draymond Green’s relationship with Kevin Durant has healed since a November locker room tiff between the two after an overtime road loss to the Los Angeles Clippers. Yet one part that still hurts Green about their divorce since Durant left the Golden State Warriors for the Brooklyn Nets in the summer is how he feels […]

Draymond Green went through a perilous road last season after confronting Kevin Durant after an overtime road loss to the Los Angeles Clippers, one that would see him suspended for a game due to conduct detrimental to the team. More importantly, his suspension started to question his standing with the franchise and his relationship with […]

Kevin Durant will likely miss the entirety of the 2019-20 season after rupturing his Achilles’ tendon in Game 5 of the NBA Finals, but he will do so for a different team after signing with the Brooklyn Nets along with his pal Kyrie Irving. In a recent interview on The Athletic’s Knuckleheads Podcast (featuring former […]

Brooklyn Nets head coach Kenny Atkinson has once again reiterated Brooklyn isn’t expecting superstar small forward Kevin Durant to play this season. Durant is recovering from a torn Achilles tendon he suffered in Game 5 of the 2019 Finals. Kenny Atkinson on @JoeandEvan discussing if Kevin Durant will play at all this season: “As of […]

Superstar small forward Kevin Durant has come away very impressed by the Brooklyn Nets organization without even playing a single game for them. Durant, who is likely going to miss the entire 2019-20 season recovering from his Achilles tear, says the Nets have “all their s**t in order” and carry a “championship mindset” with them: […]

When the Brooklyn Nets signed superstar forward Kevin Durant during the offseason, they knew he probably would not make his Nets debut until the 2020-21 campaign due to the torn Achilles he suffered in the NBA Finals. But the good news is that Durant seems to be doing well. According to Brian Lewis of the […]

The Golden State Warriors will once again have to stick with the “Splash Brothers” in terms of dealing it from deep after Kevin Durant changed zip codes this offseason. Durant — who will miss the entire 2019-20 season for the Brooklyn Nets after recovering from an Achilles injury — recently had a lighthearted conversation about […]

Kevin Durant believes the Golden State Warriors would have defeated the Toronto Raptors if he was healthy. The Raptors will enter the upcoming 2019-20 regular season as the defending NBA Champions, thanks to the team’s memorable series win over the heralded Warriors. However, even with the Raptors infamously winning the franchise’s first ever NBA title […]

Brooklyn Nets small forward Kevin Durant says Golden State Warriors point guard Stephen Curry is better than Houston Rockets guard Russell Westbrook. Durant has played with both Curry and Westbrook. The new Nets superstar says Curry is a better player than Westbrook because he’s the greatest shooter of all time. “Who is a better player: […]

Superstar small forward Kevin Durant told Toronto Raptors big man Serge Ibaka on his cooking show that he picked the Brooklyn Nets over the New York Knicks in free agency this summer because Brooklyn was “farther along in the process of being a contender.” The Nets made the playoffs last season and have a good […]

When Kevin Durant left the Oklahoma City Thunder in the summer of 2016 for the Golden State Warriors, he was called a snake by NBA fans everywhere. So of course, Serge Ibaka cooked up a nice little snake for Durant on the latest episode of his show called “How Hungry Are You?” Durant and Ibaka […]

At a Puma event in Brooklyn, Jalen Rose told Ian Begley of SNY.tv that Kevin Durant was ‘really considering’ signing with the New York Knicks in free agency. He even mentioned that Durant was almost the ‘lead recruiter’ for them. A point that Rose made was that things changed after Durant got injured and then […]

Kevin Durant of the Brooklyn Nets was having a conversation with a basketball savant via Twitter when the latter dropped some basketball statistics. Durant, seemingly caught off guard and turned off with the graphs, sent out an assertive response. Who the fuck wants to look at graphs while having a hoop convo? — Kevin Durant […]

Brooklyn Nets injured forward Kevin Durant showed support for Chicago Bulls talent Zach LaVine’s decision to still shoot long two-point shots, despite the recent wave of advanced analytics that have drawn NBA teams to favor shots at the rim and 3-point attempts over long-range jumpers inside the arc. The Chicago Bulls star told The Chicago […]

Former NBA champions Kendrick Perkins and Brian Scalabrine discussed Kevin Durant’s standing in NBA history as an offensive player. Scalabrine initially said that Durant is the best offensive player of our generation. Perk, however, turned it up a notch and argued that KD is the most gifted scorer in the history of the NBA. Perkins […]

With Kevin Durant sidelined for likely most of the upcoming season, there will be a significant void that the Brooklyn Nets will need to fill. They are going to need a player to emerge as a secondary star alongside Kyrie Irving and Caris LeVert appears ready for that role. LeVert expressed in a recent interview […]

Brooklyn Nets star Kevin Durant is out for the season, so he’s busy lighting fires wherever he can. Durant came to New York Hip Hop Station Hot 97 and talked about the New York Knicks as a basketball team and a brand. He was rather unforgiving about his words to the team. “I think a […]