Kevin Durant on signing with Warriors in 2016
In a recent interview, Kevin Durant opened up about his decision to sign with the Golden State Warriors in 2016, offering a candid perspective on the team's history. Durant said, "They never been a winning organization... Nobody liked Golden State… It felt like still an underdog to me... I'm looking at the totality of the franchise... Not what happened the last 5 years." His comments shed light on how he viewed the Warriors before their championship run, emphasizing their long-term reputation ra
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So I didn't have no relationship with nobody on the Warriors. We weren't like friends, like people like, you hooked up with your friends. Like I didn't, I never hung out with Draymond. Like that wasn't my boy. Right. Steph, we never hung out. Or Clay. I met them once I got there. Right. But it wasn't like, let me call my boys up and let me go hang out with my boys. No, I seen that's a great team that wants to win, a fun environment, great city. Oakland is like DC. Yeah. It felt like I was riding through Southeast when I was young. Absolutely. Absolutely. The fan base, the organization, never been a winning organization. When I was in the league, nobody liked Golden State. So it felt like still like an underdog to me because I'm looking at it as - I'm looking at the totality of the franchise. I ain't looking at what happened in this last five years. Right. Like you never been a perennial winner in the - you know what I'm saying? Absolutely. In the NBA from the 50s on up. So I'm like damn this an underdog franchise to me. This feel good. Like shit, this feel like where I'm supposed to be. It ain't LA, it ain't New York. It feel like where I'm supposed to be.
