Kevin Durant All-Star Media Availability | Phoenix Suns

Kevin Durant All-Star Media Availability | Phoenix Suns

Uh standing on your left Tim bontemps on right bont ESPN Kevin for a long time you and Steph and LeBron sort of been the faces of the leag almost a generation now as as you look to this younger generation of guys coming up behind you do you see any obvious

Candidate to sort of take on the manle from you guys and you eventually are done playing I think each area has five six seven guys that like help carry the game forward push the game forward um much more than just Steph LeBron and myself is James Harden Russell

Westbrooks kawh Leonard Paul George A lot of these guys whove inspired the next Generations of hoopers uh to want to be professionals uh it’s more than just a few guys so I look around the league and you see I’m miss a lot of guys but you see

Shay and book Luca um Tyrese Maxi Tyrese harber and so many guys that are inspiring next Generations and hoopers after them to become B basketball players that you can’t just pinpoint it to one or two guys so it’s about pushing the game forward um setting a different

Standard of how we play and these guys are doing it right now from Dominican Republic what has been the most memorable G in your entire career and why most memorable game yeah um it’s a tough question you put me on the spot um if I had say one I probably say

Game game 6 2012 going into um Western Conference Finals we up 32 on San Antonio and we down 20 at the half at home and we had the rally to get to the finals at 23 years old I probably was something that stood out the most uh Dwayne hold on the

Microphone sorry about that Kevin two questions one um you and Devin hey why do you think you guys have clicked so well um so quickly why do you think that is uh cuz we hang out off the floor I think that’s that’s most of the battle when

You get to know your teammates that deep you know we almost to this point know what each other thinking you know so um I hung out with him a lot since I got the Phoenix in this past summer and we worked out obviously but us hanging out

Playing video game going out having a drink you know all that stuff helps when you have been trying to gain chemistry as a team and uh it’s been great getting to know quick follow um on the court obviously you guys talk quite a bit he said that you give him confidence what

Does he give you same thing I mean when you just I mean I feel like we’re both confident players but when you got that extra support out there to just go do what you do um sometimes you need that especially when you one of the lead guys

On the team you focus on so much other stuff your teammates scheme strategy you know um and sometimes you need somebody to relieve you all that stuff and just tell you to go play and I think that’s what we do for one another also our coaching staff

Does that for us as well and our teammates so when you got support like that it just makes you a way better player Denise the players should be uh can you tell me what it actually means to be an an anr for all the dogs um whenever Drake just want to talk

About life I’m just there for him and then he just gave me that title and then quick followup when’s your album dropping I doubt I have an album dropping I get I just do it for fun uh y uh if you were trying to slide in somebody’s DMS line where are you at

I’m right here who gave this guy a mic say that again you’re trying to slide in some of us DMS what’s your line Hi H it I try next question up here in the front third uh fourth SE filter 360 Kevin you have in your career you have played with um Superstars and

Great combinations like Westbrook Kyrie Irving Steph Curry um in my opinion the best chemistry you have develop it’s scary obviously because you want to championships they ever cross your mind to go back and play with him at the end of your career I think I had great

Chemistry with every point guard you can ask all of them I think to be honest I played longer with Russ so I think I probably got more chemistry with him we came up together uh as 19 year olds you know so we played eight seasons together and he

Knew me inside out you know obviously I had great success with Steph I don’t want to discredit that but I don’t want to also discredit what me and Russ did as well as a Duo you know um so yeah I had great chemistry with every player

Like Kyrie as well book as well so you know we had success as a team with the Warriors for sure um but I feel like I had great chemistry with all the guys I played with again front right hi Kevin um at this point of in your career when

You’ve already accomplished so much what do you hope to still accomplish and what do you hope your legacy is once you end up retiring uh I just I just want to keep being available every day um keep adding to what I did already I mean I never going to any day trying to

Accomplish anything I just put the work in and whatever happens happens you know Legacy I just want to be respected amongst player people that actually play the game um and players that are aspiring to be where I’m at I want to be respected by them um and that’s it David over here

Third row David Aldridge the athletic um Kevin now that we’ve kind of seen the 65 game minimum kind of in practice actual practice I just wonder what you think about it as kind of setting a baseline for awards and if that’s the way it should be going forward or if there’s something else

That might work better yeah I mean yeah some guys usually some guys get injured man some guys just get injured I think the 65 game rule I guess for for the low low management but I think low management sometimes come from these organizations too when they force you to sit out of

Games and then guys may be injured so I mean I don’t know it’s tough it’s tough I mean I just want guys healthy and on the court too I know I guess I guess that’s what the solution is try to get guys stay on the court

But it’s just something we just got to deal with I won’t say I love it or I hate it either but it’s just something we got to deal with all the way back right right here Kevin um the back uh Nelson perz is f media uh excluding the the Suns

Excluding you guys uh what has been the best team you’ve seen this season and and the best player every night my best player and my top fives and my goats like I feel like every week they change you know what I’m saying so I think this last week right before

The break uh Minnesota was playing good ball um Clippers playing great ball if anything I probably say Clippers and give it to kaai best player I’ve seen fourth row on the right side Kevin Bob Kravitz with the with Indianapolis monthly Steph versus Sabrina who you got

And why and what do you think this moment will mean especially for for women’s basketball yeah my I got asked this question three times over the last three weeks my final answer today is I’ll go with step um and I just than the fact that

You know you got you know the men’s and women’s game coming together to just help celebrate the game of basketball is always good Sabrina is such a great Ambassador for the a women’s game just I don’t even want to call it the women for the game of basketball in general Steph

Is such a great Ambassador um so we get them both on the floor together shoot some basketballs man it’s always going to be fun so I’m looking forward to it it’s a new event we have and hopefully we can do more stuff like this with the

WNBA as well Allstar Weekend so I’m sure they going to put a show on second over here hey KD karita Parks um later today is the HBCU classic and someone who supports HBCU how important do you think it is for these schools to have an opportunity to be on a platform such as

Allstars it’s huge it’s huge you know it’s just a opportunity for people around the country to see type of talent they have at HBCU it’s a lot of hidden gems there uh great coaching great talent you know up and down the board so you know if we can give them the

Platform to Showcase their talents and skills and uh we need to do so so I’m excited for him you know hopefully this is become an annual thing and we start to see more and more Talent come HBCU back left I okay Lan Russ from NBA Australia uh you spent a lot of years

Both International and in the NBA playing against and with Patty Mills um what impact do you think he’s had on the international game Australian basketball and the NBA just a flat out legend for the Boomers right bers it’s been I mean been a constant for that program since

I’ve been in the league and you know they play with such a toughness and you know that comes from their best player which is Patty and they have an opportunity to play with Patty for two years in Brooklyn I see why uh you know he’s become such a legend over there

He’s so passionate about where he’s from he’s so passionate about just the culture itself and basketball and um and he’s an extremely hard worker whose Journey should be spoken about with uh some of the best so um he continues to push the game game forward man and

Inspire a lot of people and that’s what that’s what I love about this game we’ll take last two right here and then in the back Ranna Holmes with radio one Hey Kevin I know you’ve been doing Allstar Weekend for many years but what is the thing that you look forward to

Every year coming back um just being around the great you know uh even if it’s a couple minutes you can soak up some type of knowledge you know from these guys and you know you just get so much energy seeing other greats other Hall of Famers all other champions in

The building with you you know so to be in that atmosphere with them is probably the best part last one in the back Center Kevin what do you think about the season of Victor and what do you think it can achieve before the end of the season thank

You man um like that dude can do he can achieve anything he wants in this game I think he’s only get more comfortable um um as time goes on was 201 10 three and a half blocks a game two or three assists it’s just this insane how

Dominant he’s going to be as he gets more comfortable in the game luckily I’m on my way out so I won’t have to deal with it too much um but you just you just see him settling in game after game after game and it’s going to be a joy to watch thank you

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Kevin Durant speaks to the media at his media availability for the 2024 All-Star Game in Indianapolis.

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