NEW YORK – Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving won’t know for at least a year if what they forged — on a three-way Group FaceTime chat with DeAndre Jordan at “4:16 in the morning” of June 30 — will yield the kind of fulfillment that they desire on the basketball court. But given what Durant and Irving experienced in the past year, turning their friendship into a partnership with the Brooklyn Nets was exactly the move both needed from a personal perspective.
Irving wanted the refuge of home. Durant wanted a place he could call home.
“We want to end our careers together,” Irving said. “We want to do this as a team, and what better place to do it than Brooklyn? … We’re just here to observe one another, care for one another and be here to enjoy playing basketball. I feel like that can get confused in this league, who we are as human beings. I’m always: We’re humans first and then basketball players.”
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