Kevin Durant and the Golden State Warriors are well on their way to becoming champions again after their second victory in the second game of the finals. Durant now looked back on his Free Agency 2016 and revealed that he had some doubts about himself and was looking for confirmation.
KD seeks confirmation from the players of the Warriors, as Durant confirmed in an interview with Tim Kawakami of The Athletic. When Stephen Curry, Klay Thompson, Draymond Green and Andre Iguodala visited the then Thunder star in the Hamptons, Durant first asked why the Warriors wanted him at all.
“Everybody looked at me like I was crazy,” Durant remembered. “I just wanted to be part of something very special. It was perfect, everyone had the same way of thinking, it wasn’t about egos.”
Durant was already MVP (2014) and was in the finals with the Oklahoma City Thunder (2012), but some self-doubt plagued the forward. “I didn’t know what people thought of my game,” Durant explained. “I knew I was damn good and worked a lot, but I needed confirmation from my colleagues, other teams and the GMs. I needed this to feel good, to be confident.”
The Warriors and the group now known as Hampton Five gave Durant just that. The best team in the league with some of the best players in the league wanted me on their team. That was pretty cool.”
Durant won the title with the Warriors in the first season and was also voted final MVP. In 130 games for the Oakland franchise, the forward averaged 25.7 points and 4.4 rebounds.