Durant possibly the most disappointing NBA player ever.
Has goat talent and tools and couldn't win without Steph.
Looking back, Steph was better than we realized. The toxicity of KD + Draymond was insurmountable but he did.
He didn't add much on defense and wasn't able to pull up other players around him compared to Lebron. That's not goat level potential. He's just a great great player but goat was never his ceiling.
If Presti doesn't panic trade Harden, Durant would (probably) have had 2+ rings at an age at which Lebron and MJ had zero.
I don't even like KD. But I understand how everyone's fate regarding rings is inevitably tied into a bunch of stuff over which the player has zero control.
The OKC rings stuff is whatever because he equally lucked out that the team that drafted him luckboxed 2 MVP's on top of that as they got rid of the better one before his prime years
It's more indeed the fact his best years were wasted by Russ. there was that one year iirc where Russ was injured most of the year and he won MVP
His defense in GS was tremendous when he got to carry less of a load on offense
It's hard to feel too bad for any negative variance KD has had in his career when he won 2 fake rings that most people seem to count as real rings for some reason.
The OKC rings stuff is whatever because he equally lucked out that the team that drafted him luckboxed 2 MVP's on top of that as they got rid of the better one before his prime years
It's more indeed the fact his best years were wasted by Russ. there was that one year iirc where Russ was injured most of the year and he won MVP
His defense in GS was tremendous when he got to carry less of a load on offense
Wasted yes maybe but he still got in the finals vs LeBron and they were up 3-1 in the west CF vs warriors and they manage to lose it .
He didn't add much on defense and wasn't able to pull up other players around him compared to Lebron. That's not goat level potential. He's just a great great player but goat was never his ceiling.
Best tools ever is the definition of goat potential. Loser mentality is what separates KD from Lebron and MJ, not talent.