Kevin Durant on teams that missed out on the championship: You can still see some beauty in that

Kevin Durant: We’re putting our boots back on the next year. Like, that’s always been the mentality. But you know, the dialogue around the league—the discourse—they don’t truly appreciate the journey sometimes of what goes on. Even the ones that don’t work out—you can still see some beauty in that. Like the Sacramento Kings that didn’t win a chip. Or your Phoenix Suns that didn’t win the championship. If you really love the game of basketball, you can pull great things from all of that. And that’s what I tend to do with that Brooklyn situation. We had some fun times, we had some terrible times—but that’s life. That’s what makes you a better human being. If I’m being honest, we had more good times than not. Even the times when it was me and four two-way guys—it was fun to me. ’cause we locked in as a family. Just us—for that little 48 minutes. And a lot of those games—like high-pressure, late games—even me, I learned from them. But those young guys took a lot from that too.