Fred VanVleet: Kevin Durant and Kawhi Leonard’s greatness is so effortless it gets taken for granted
Fred VanVleet on Kevin Durant and Kawhi Leonard: I haven't been out there with KD, but like just having a front row seat, I feel like they're very different people, but like the greatness is taken for granted. Like we just played the Pelicans or somebody and it's like KD just going through the game. He doing his thing.
He might get a free throw like and then you look up and it's like bro, he’s like 24, and I'm like when did this happen? [laughter] I know how hard it is for me to get 24. I'm working hard to get 24.
He doesn't miss, you're surprised when he missed. So the greatness of that and Kawhi used to be like that, because Kawhi was a little more rigid and like methodical to the approach but even though he'll be like three for nine or something, playing team defense, passing the ball, then the fourth quarter comes and he'll just make like six pull-up jumpers going right in a row and you look up and he got like 28, and I'm like damn! [laughter] It's levels, like it's just levels bro and I'm just grateful to be able to see it.
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