Bickley Blast: Kevin Durant saved the Warriors’ legacy, didn’t ruin his own

Bickley Blast: Kevin Durant saved the Warriors’ legacy, didn’t ruin his own

And marada boings Arizona Sports the local sports leader Bley blast we the people love to concern ourselves with other people’s business and in the World of Sports we love to worry about Kevin Durant’s Legacy and how he ruined it by joining the Warriors who were coming off

The best regular season in history this is a narrative folks that needs a full stop because you can make a very strong case that while KD has taken a lot of Strays for his career choices he should be praised for saving the legacy of Steph Curry and Klay Thompson and

Draymond Green because KD was the guy who put them over the top in the ensuing two years after their 73- win team had blown a 3-1 lead in the NBA Finals so what if KD never went to the Bay Area what if the Warriors never recovered from that finals loss the answer Not

Only would they not be a dynasty they might symbolize one of the greatest collapsing acts in basketball and it’s not just me saying this none other than former Pistons great and Sons de facto GM Isaiah Thomas made those comments to Draymond Green’s face during a recent podcast because they happen to be true

Anyway KD is in the midst of his finest season in a long time and his recent scoring barrage has the media’s ATT attention and it’s why the suns are currently being considered a dangerous Darkhorse in the Western Conference and if he brings a title to Phoenix he’ll

End our suffering and his own cuz nobody will talk about his legacy ever again all right today’s bigly blast brought to you by my great friends at Chapman BMW who make luxury attainable find them online at Chapman bmw.com I like the way you put that Beck should be

Credited with saving the legacy of the warrior F this exact narrative on its head and it makes even more sense that it that the Warriors not Kevin Durant should be BL the Warriors are the one that reached out to KD yes Draymond Green is the one that called KD from his

Car after that game seven loss to LeBron and the Cavs yes and the reason why Klay Thompson could be obnoxious and Flash four fingers when he’s frustrated because because of Kevin right and the way Draymond Green can take shots at KD for you talk about it’s because he

Helped you get two rings you got my phone number call me I’ll talk about you on a podcast but you have to call me yeah but so really this is an interesting way to look at what is one of the more prevailing narratives in basketball that KD blew it by leaving

Oklahoma City to join Golden State and when when he didn’t find what he was looking for legacy wise or when people started getting on him he went to try to do it on his own and failed and now here he’s here in Phoenix as one of the NBA’s

More well-traveled hobos no it’s you can really make the case that KD saved their legacy cost his own maybe but he saved theirs and so it’s uh it’s it’s an interesting thought I I like it a and I think that what KD has done this year has kind of reminded everybody that the

Player who’s been very very much criticized in in since Golden State since the injury since signing with Brooklyn since the lack of AA ability since bringing in everybody he wanted in Brooklyn than bailing he he has taken a lot of Strays and he has been absolutely

Fantastic this year so there you go and and I do think that that’s a great legacy play for not only the Suns but for him just win a title for the Suns it all goes away for everybody that’s I mean that’s the easiest remedy for all of this because

Kevin Durant himself acknowledges that we can’t have Kenny Dillingham being the most accomplished KD in the valley well I guess we could but well I mean all due respect to Kenny right it’s still Kat that’s just a cheap try to joke sorry trying to think of another KD

A do we have one Kyle Davidson was there a Kyle Kyle Davids Kyle DOD KY Kyle do yeah Kevin dinkle oh that’s no no no no the dink uh Durant is on a heater four straight games of 35 Plus by the way by doing that second guy in Sun’s history

To do it only the 14th active player to do it um and it was weird that he was not on that list with all of the things he’s accomplished it was just an amazing statistic but he’s getting the notice of those around the league right now including sham stania I mean I think

We’ve hit on it Kevin Durant a massive season and just think about it in 2019 he has the Achilles tear and now he’s in his age 35 season he’s got the most 30-point games for a player in in his 30 in his 35 years of age like what he’s

Doing this season is remarkable especially the last four games or so he’s been taking up an even another level with Devon Booker out uh I mean 38 points T night 54% from the field 47% from three so he’s doing everything this team is 19-9 since January 8th and even

Though they’ve played 41 games this year without the big three just 24 with them I think these next few weeks it’s like just building momentum with those three in the lineup you have to have them and building momentum together building momentum individually too cuz Kevin Durant previous to this stretch that

He’s on right now he had some games in there that weren’t exactly vintage Durant I mean six out of 15 from the floor against Oklahoma City in that loss uh seven out of 20 in a game that they beat the Lakers nine out of 22 and a loss to

Dallas um so it wasn’t uh you know the the smoth in a loss to Houston he went 10 for 22 1 for seven from three-point range so people were starting to ask the question all right is this where Kevin Durant finally slows down and he’s answered that question very resoundingly

With one of the biggest uh Rampages from a scoring standpoint he’s ever been on and that’s saying something it really is because it it really just seems like yesterday we’re like what is this funk that KD is in and can somebody get him out of it yeah it it’s he’s um and and

That came with that that huge step back three um in the midst of a very bad shooting game and he’s been on a tear ever since yeah right that Denver game that over time yes exactly the overtime in Denver and it’s it’s been lights out

Ever since and and I think when you take a look across and we’ve talked already about canavi is called well Pope on a podcast um with Chris Haynes he’s ID the Suns and the Thunder um and the Timberwolves if all are healthy is primary threats to them uh you might not

Have heard that a couple weeks ago you’re you’re hearing people ID that the Suns is the biggest threat to the nuggets and it’s it it’s it’s all kind of tied into all of this stuff here the return of Devon Booker the continued Brilliance of KD who at age 35 is just

Still still a bucket as Chris Paul lik to say mhm oh he definitely is and we’ll see uh that tomorrow night in Boston against the Celtics very highly anticipated matchup especially after those two teams got together in Phoenix last week thanks for watching Bickley and marada click to see the latest Bley

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On the latest Bickley Blast, Dan Bickley argues that Kevin Durant didn’t ruin his legacy by going to the Warriors, but saved theirs.

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