Fox Sports 1 panelist Nick Wright had a bone to pick with Kevin Durant saying he's not obsessed with winning championships after obtaining his second title with the Golden State Warriors, accompanied by a second Finals MVP award.
Wright offered that the scrutiny surrounding Durant over the last couple of years has been due to a lack of clear identity.
“The reason I think all the KD stuff gets picked apart though, is because if you're a fan of basketball and you like to be able to follow a narrative and because Kevin Durant hasn't been consistent with any of his messages over the last two years,” Wright argued. “People don't know who he is and people wanna know who he is.”
Durant's message might not have been as clear, but it's far from inconsistent.
Ever since first having to justify his decision to come to Golden State, the Seat Pleasant native said he did it for personal growth, to grow as a player and explore the limits of his play.
He's done so over the last two years, trusted upon a more pivotal defensive role and asked to become a playmaker, rather than a mere pure scorer, while still having chances to take over a game and dominate.
The greatest reflection of that was perhaps his most recent outing in Game 4, pulling off a 20-point, 12-rebound, 10-assists triple-double (his lone of the playoffs), while his teammate Stephen Curry incinerated Quicken Loans Arena with a 37-point performance.
That performance could have costed Durant the MVP award, but it's the newly-learned unselfishness that also earned it for him.
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