Kevin Durant

Kevin Durant won two championships with the Golden State Warriors. However, here's why they might not actually carry much weight.

Durant is a great player, but his legacy would look totally different had he not gone to the Warriors and won two titles. The Warriors’ two straight pre-Durant Finals trips and 2015 championship had always made KD haters ask that specific question. They won before Kevin Durant, and they’re winning after him. So, there was still a slim chance that his presence in Golden State actually had significant meaning to their 2017 and 2018 championship runs. For years, we have all questioned the legitimacy of Kevin Durant’s two NBA championships. As great as he is, Durant jumped on someone else’s bandwagon to win a ring.

The NBA Twitter picked its victim after the 2022 NBA Championship, and it's Kevin Durant. Check out the best jokes as fans ruthlessly troll Durant.

Do I genuinely think Durant will be back with the Warriors after this year? These memes may be a favorite among these jokes because they fit the narrative so well. In today’s day and age, athletes like Durant are perfect targets for jokes after a team they used to play for wins a title, so he better mute his name on Twitter and ride this out.

Basketball diehards started poking fun at Durant right after the Warriors won the Western Conference Finals, earning a ticket to the NBA Finals. It proved their ...

KD has to win one (if not multiple) titles to prove that he doesn’t need the Warriors or Curry by his side. Fans started flocking to social media as the Warriors mounted a seemingly insurmountable lead early in the third quarter. Steph won two without KD, while Durant hasn’t won any without Steph and the Warriors.

Steph Curry led the Golden State Warriors to their fourth championship in eight years and finally bagged the NBA Finals MVP award.

Golden State’s crippling 21-0 run with just a little over two minutes left in the game’s first 12 minutes was just too much to overcome. Steph Curry led the Golden State Warriors to their fourth championship in eight years and finally bagged the NBA Finals MVP award. They were, however, exposed against Steph Curry, Klay Thompson and Draymond Green’s Warriors. Boston couldn’t help shooting themselves in the foot with careless turnovers and inexperience. His presence alone keeps Boston’s perimeter defense on their toes, giving Steph Curry a little more room to operate. The following year, LeBron James finally had his two superstar teammates and beat the 73-9 Warriors in an upset for the ages. Without his sidekicks, “King James” didn’t have enough ammunition to beat the Warriors.

The Golden State Warriors are the 2022 NBA champions after defeating the Boston Celtics in six games in this year's Finals. The Dubs waited for their.

Then again, he's used to getting hate, so the real reason behind this is still unclear. After the Dubs completed the job, many fans congratulated them for coming back after two terrible seasons. It seemed like their dynasty was over, but that was far away from reality.

Former Golden State superstar Kevin Durant was trending after last night's NBA Finals victory for the Warriors.

Durant and the Warriors went to three straight NBA Finals during his time with the team, winning two. Steph Curry and the Dubs claimed the first title of their modern dynasty over the Cleveland Cavaliers in 2014-15. This year, KD and his Nets were eliminated in the first round of the postseason.

It has been several years since Kevin Durant suited up for the Golden State Warriors. Yet his name has been trending on social media since the.

— JOEY (@JWepp)June 17, 2022 — hoopsdontstop 🗯 (@hoopsdontstop)June 17, 2022 — Greg Pop•A•Bih (@JustPeedi)June 17, 2022

Si Golden State a dû faire la fête toute la nuit suite au titre remporté, une superstar a eu le droit à un festival de tacles gratinés : Kevin Durant.

Parti suite à la défaite en 2019 contre les Raptors, le Slim Reaper avait en effet décidé d’aller monter une superteam chez les Noirs et Blancs en compagnie d’Uncle Drew. Sauf que les résultats ne sont toujours pas au rendez-vous, et l’aventure de Brooklyn cette année s’est même arrêtée… après un sweep face aux Celtics, justement. Sans surprise, les fans de la Baie étaient donc hilares après la rencontre et n’ont pas manqué de le tacler sans retenue : Si Golden State a dû faire la fête toute la nuit suite au titre remporté, une superstar a eu le droit à un festival de tacles gratinés : Kevin Durant. L’ailier de Brooklyn a en effet passé un sale quart d’heure après le coup de sifflet final, les fans s’en donnant à coeur joie.

Nets superstar Kevin Durant could not help but respond to the slander pertaining to his legacy with the Warriors.

— Kevin Durant (@KDTrey5)June 17, 2022 Durant did not appear to be in a foul mood and he just took the jab in stride. — Kevin Durant (@KDTrey5)June 17, 2022

Brooklyn Nets star Kevin Durant has finally tweeted about the Golden State Warriors' latest title.

There really isn't much Durant can do at this moment to change people's minds. The Warriors won the NBA Finals twice with Durant before he left for the Brooklyn Nets. Eventually, the Warriors replaced Durant with Andrew Wiggins, who performed very well against the Boston Celtics. Immediately after the Golden State Warriors won the NBA Finals on Thursday night, fans started tweeting about Kevin Durant.

When Stephen Curry came out of high school, there was not much confidence surrounding his basketball career trajectory. Then, he led Davidson to an Elite 8.

That was confirmed when Curry won his fourth championship and won the Finals MVP Award. There is a valid discussion that the Warriors might have not won the 2017 or 2018 Finals without Durant. With that said, Curry made it to the Finals twice before Durant joined the team. Curry led the league in offensive win shares (13.8) and total win shares (17.9) during his unanimous MVP season. He won the MVP Award in 2019 with teammates Curry and Thompson in the game. When Durant led the league in win shares, it was also during his MVP season. Curry won the MVP right after Durant had won his fourth scoring title in his career. Durant made the Second Team in 2016, 2017, and 2019. We are not even talking just because Curry made the 50-40-90 club either because that is something Durant has done once in his career, which was in 2013. After the record-setting season, Durant joined the Warriors and helped the team win titles in 2017 and 2018, which included winning Finals MVP in both of those seasons. His former teammate in Kevin Durant was a part of two of those championship teams, which included winning back-to-back Finals MVP Awards. With Curry and Durant on the same team, it featured the last three MVP award winners. Curry and the Warriors core marched to the NBA Finals, where Curry earned his first Finals MVP. Meanwhile, Durant played with Kyrie Irving and James Harden throughout the season and the Nets nearly missed the playoffs and were then bounced out of the first round. If Curry is a top-10 player in the league, is there room for Durant in those top spots as well?

Even though he wasn't playing in the Finals, Brooklyn Nets star Kevin Durant finds himself roped into the conversation after his former Warriors teammates ...

I think that's right,” Wright said back on May 27. But that won’t stop the dialogue. While Steph Curry was coronated with his spectacular run en route to winning his first Finals MVP award, some posited how this would impact Durant, believing that his legacy was hurt by Golden State winning after his departure (while he has yet to reach the conference finals with Brooklyn).

Kevin Durant n'a pas félicité les Warriors pour leur titre, par rapport à un LeBron James. Un peu d'amertume dans le coin...

C’est un bel avenir qui s’annonce du côté de Golden State, avec des jeunes prometteurs à faire grandir. Maintenant c’est le cas, avec ce groupe, sans comparaison avec ceux d’avant, et c’est plutôt cool. On imagine qu’il préfère peut-être se faire discret, avec un simple message en privé pour Steph, Klay voire même Green. Après tout, c’est encore l’intention qui compte.

feltbot: Kevin Durant's legacy just died He's now just the guy between Harrison Barnes and Andrew Wiggins. Kevin Durant: I been dead since July 4th 2016, ...

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Brooklyn Nets star Kevin Durant had quite the response on Twitter after his former team in the Golden State Warriors just won the 2022 NBA Finals.

It is a perfect nickname, but too bad he has been dead the whole time. This comes as quite a shock that Durant has been dead for going on six years. As it turns out, Durant has been dead for years.

After Steph Curry's Warriors finished off the Celtics for their fourth championship in eight years, social media took aim at Kevin Durant.

Durant, who won two rings with Golden State, joined the team in 2016 after the Warriors won a championship in 2015. Durant, who was eliminated by the Celtics in the first round of this year’s playoffs, is signed with Brooklyn through the 2025-2026 season. Kevin Durant always seems to find himself on the sour side of these conversations.

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The Golden State Warriors accomplished something Thursday at TD Garden they'd done only once during their dynasty run — they won a title without Kevin ...

Golden State’s superstar reflected on his journey with the Warriors on stage after the game. The result was three straight trips to the Finals as Durant’s teammate and back-to-back titles that would have almost surely been a three-peat save for devastating injuries to both Durant and Klay Thompson. Now at 34 years old, Curry has played in six NBA Finals and has won four rings. Durant, typically an active participant on social media, kept to himself on Twitter the night of the Dubs’ celebration. You bookend it,” Curry told Vincent Goodwill of Yahoo Sports. “That’s part of it. “Kevin Durant’s legacy just died,” @feltbot tweeted.

Kevin Durant is one of the greatest scorers in the history of basketball, and there's no doubt that he will retire as one of the best small forwards to have ...

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