LeBron James is better, Stephen Curry is more beloved, but I’m not sure I’ve gotten more news alerts over the past decade-plus about any NBA player more than Kevin Durant. The superstar always has some sort of drama happening. At the end of this month, it will be nine years since he made his notorious decision to join the Golden State Warriors in free agency, and we’ve been talking about him nonstop since. He won two titles with the Warriors, then missed a season with a torn Achilles; went on another free-agency tour, in which most thought he would sign with the Knicks and somehow chose Brooklyn; eventually got himself traded out of there when everything imploded because of Kyrie Irving; went off to Phoenix, where he got hurt again and then was good again … and now is about to be traded once more.
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