Kevin Durant Takes Over with LeBron Absent: NBA's New Era Starts
While appearing on the Mind the Game podcast last July with LeBron and Steve Nash, Durant spoke about the difficulty of staying the course as an elite scorer and attaining longevity. “You got to recommit and sign that contract with yourself. … Some people say, ‘I want to go play baseball.
Yeah, and then I wanna come back. ’ Or some people say ‘I’m gonna go 22 straight. ’” Durant got considerable backlash at the time, but said he still stands by those words.
“It’s true,” Durant said. “MJ took time off. It’s times where he was like, ‘I’m sick of the game.
I want to take time off and regroup and come back into the game. ’ And that’s what he did. Bron, he played straight through.
I’m sure it was times when he was sick of the game and didn’t want to play. Sick of all the b. s.