During his meeting with Snoop Dogg for the inauguration of a gymnasium in Long Beach, Stephen Curry had been caught chatting with the rapper about a possible trade involving Kevin Durant. Already at the time, such a move seemed unrealistic to him, given the demands of the Nets to trade him.
To attract a Kevin Durant, you need a very big fish as a bargaining chip, and therefore be willing to sacrifice some balance. It’s a choice the Celtics had to face, only to change their minds.
“They have a bit of everything, but then they would have had to deal with a transition period at the franchise level by getting rid of a Jaylen Brown. It’s such an important element. If they had done that…”. Stephen Curry then snapped his fingers as if to mimic an explosion.
For Stephen Curry, Kevin Durant is “misunderstood”
It’s a bit the same answer that the player gave to the magazine “RollingStone”when asked if he had considered welcoming Kevin Durant back to Golden State.
“I was never hesitant about playing with KD,” he first launched. “Knowing who he is as a person and looking at our history over these three years, I think KD is a really good guy. I think he is misunderstood, that certain things happened in his life that prevented him from trusting the people around him, from feeling safe at all times. All these things I know because I played with him and got to know him. And I love this guy. So if you said to me, ‘KD is coming back, and we’re going to play with him’, I’ve had so much fun playing with him for those three years that I’d say, ‘Of course!’ “.
As with the Celtics, it all comes down to “but at what cost?” “. What would it take to be able to find Kevin Durant at the Warriors. And of course, that’s where it gets stuck.
“You also have to think: What does this really mean? What does it look like ? If you tell me that I will play with my current team-mates, I also say to myself: ‘Oh yes!’. You also have to understand that if we leave with the same team, I have complete confidence in my group in the current state that we can go all the way again.”he pointed out. “So all of those things were true. And it started with the fact that I wanted to play with KD at first. Yes, it’s about winning, having fun, playing basketball. And it was all part of the ‘Yeah, that would be great’ reaction. But what does that actually mean? “.
| Stephen Curry | Percentage | Bounces | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season | Crew | GM | Minimum | Shots | 3 points | LF | Off | Def | Early | pd | party | Int | bp | CT | Points |
| 2009-10 | GOS | 80 | 36 | 46.2 | 43.7 | 88.5 | 0.6 | 3.9 | 4.5 | 5.9 | 3.2 | 1.9 | 3.0 | 0.2 | 17.5 |
| 2010-11 | GOS | 74 | 34 | 48.0 | 44.2 | 93.4 | 0.7 | 3.2 | 3.9 | 5.8 | 3.2 | 1.5 | 3.1 | 0.3 | 18.6 |
| 2011-12 | GOS | 26 | 28 | 49.0 | 45.5 | 80.9 | 0.6 | 2.8 | 3.4 | 5.3 | 2.4 | 1.5 | 2.5 | 0.3 | 14.7 |
| 2012-13 | GOS | 78 | 38 | 45.1 | 45.3 | 90.0 | 0.8 | 3.3 | 4.0 | 6.9 | 2.5 | 1.6 | 3.1 | 0.2 | 22.9 |
| 2013-14 | GOS | 78 | 37 | 47.1 | 42.4 | 88.5 | 0.6 | 3.7 | 4.3 | 8.5 | 2.5 | 1.6 | 3.8 | 0.2 | 24.0 |
| 2014-15 ★ | GOS | 80 | 33 | 48.7 | 44.3 | 91.4 | 0.7 | 3.6 | 4.3 | 7.7 | 2.0 | 2.0 | 3.1 | 0.2 | 23.8 |
| 2015-16 ★ | GOS | 79 | 34 | 50.4 | 45.4 | 90.8 | 0.9 | 4.6 | 5.4 | 6.7 | 2.0 | 2.1 | 3.3 | 0.2 | 30.1 |
| 2016-17 | GOS | 79 | 33 | 46.8 | 41.1 | 89.8 | 0.8 | 3.7 | 4.5 | 6.6 | 2.3 | 1.8 | 3.0 | 0.2 | 25.3 |
| 2017-18 | GOS | 51 | 32 | 49.5 | 42.3 | 92.1 | 0.7 | 4.4 | 5.1 | 6.1 | 2.2 | 1.6 | 3.0 | 0.2 | 26.4 |
| 2018-19 | GOS | 69 | 34 | 47.2 | 43.7 | 91.6 | 0.7 | 4.7 | 5.4 | 5.2 | 2.4 | 1.3 | 2.8 | 0.4 | 27.3 |
| 2019-20 | GOS | 5 | 28 | 40.2 | 24.5 | 100.0 | 0.8 | 4.4 | 5.2 | 6.6 | 2.2 | 1.0 | 3.2 | 0.4 | 20.8 |
| 2020-21 | GOS | 63 | 34 | 48.2 | 42.1 | 91.6 | 0.5 | 5.0 | 5.5 | 5.8 | 1.9 | 1.2 | 3.4 | 0.1 | 32.0 |
| 2021-22 | GOS | 64 | 35 | 43.7 | 38.0 | 92.3 | 0.5 | 4.7 | 5.2 | 6.3 | 2.0 | 1.3 | 3.2 | 0.4 | 25.5 |
| Total | 826 | 34 | 47.3 | 42.8 | 90.8 | 0.7 | 4.0 | 4.7 | 6.5 | 2.4 | 1.7 | 3.2 | 0.2 | 24.3 | |
