Kevin Durant Interview | 2023 NBA ASW Media Day

Drake. I just, I was just trying to get out there. I mean, I left New York the day after and I've been in Phoenix since then. So just try to get comfortable where I was going to Oh, yeah, most definitely. Thank you. I think he still has a talent to play in our league. Say it again. Probably job right now. He probably got the best one. Drake, Beyonce, Rihanna. What you got? What you got? Was it? Oh, I'm sick. I'm bad. I got to deal with you. Say it again. I wouldn't. I wouldn't tell you. If you're locked in enough, it can happen pretty fast. You've got veteran players that know how to play the game and know different terminologies. So I think, you know, we put our mind to it. It can happen pretty quickly. Probably my first one. Yeah, I want to reach perfection. I know I'll never reach it, but I guess just trying to get there every day is good enough. I feel like I'm a competition with myself, just trying to be the best version of me every day. Sometimes you don't reach that, but it's it's it's fun competing with yourself that way. I can't hear you. Say it again. Ransom. Thirty days past Drake. Come on, bro. But I haven't really got on the court right to see to hear all the little stuff they saying. But for playing against them, Deepak Deepak probably is the best. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, size always matters in our game, and I feel like all the biggest teams had an advantage. And yeah, you start to see more teams from this from their point guard down to their center, six, six to seven feet to the center. So I just think just to cover more ground, you need more athletic and bigger guys. And the skill level has gone up in our league. So you need more size, too. So it's all it's all good for the game, I think. The league, the game of basketball has taught me discipline and dedication and hard work. And that's pretty much all I can say. No, I don't even think about the offseason. There's a lot that goes into that. And I'm not even thinking about that. It's not even on my radar. Yeah, I would call Brandon Ingram young no more. But I feel like we got the same body types and we score from the same areas of the floor. I would say him, but I won't call him young no more. I feel like he's a vet in the league now. I don't know. I think we all got our own unique and different games. And I feel like there's a lot of skilled players that bring in their own twist to the game. So I wouldn't I wouldn't say anybody. I just love to play. Playoffs is the most important part of the season. You know, I think all great players enjoy the playoffs. So I feel like that's when you really come alive is when those moments, you know, arise, you know, as you get later in the playoffs. No, I just do the same stuff. Just keep working the same way. Nothing extra. Say it again. Oh, yeah. Most definitely. You bring myself over here. Kyrie over here. You got a lot of trades, small pieces that help. Yeah. Trey Murphy over here interrogating me right now. What's up, brother? I'm gonna go with you. Don't disappoint me, bro. I got you. His IQ for the game, I think his enthusiasm for the game, I think that goes underrated. CP really loves ball. You know, he just like watching the game, like analyzing, like going through strategy and stuff. So I've been in a been a week there now, a couple practices, a few games, and he always pulls me to the side and we just talk and hoop, you know, so I love that about him. You know, but obviously on the floor, he can create so much for his teammates and for himself is only going to help us. I don't remember getting picked last ever. Yeah. Yeah. Sometimes you play, you want to play with the older guys and they wouldn't let you play. And, you know, and you just, you know, everybody heard that story before. You just want to get out there and prove yourself. But, yeah, I mean, in this setting, like you being picked last really is not saying like you wanted to, you know, still want to. It's like the richest million. I mean, the brokest millionaire getting picked. I've seen that on Twitter. Somebody said the last pick is like the brokest millionaire. So it don't matter, man. I guess as long as you're out there on the floor. Say what? Seven was retired in Phoenix. I wanted to keep seven, but Kevin Johnson is such a great player that he got it up in the rafters. So the only other number I know is 35. Start my phone. Bench my game and cut my laptop. 2K. Yeah, the new war zone map just dropped the resurgence. I'm going to check that out, too. I haven't. No, probably not. Probably not. Dirt on. Enjoy the moment. Enjoy the moment. Everything's going to happen pretty fast. Yeah, I do. I had enough of Dave on the sideline asking questions in the virtual world. So, yeah, of course I skip it. A lot of ransom and 38 special. That's about it. I mean, I always want to be respected by the greats in the game for my for my game and my abilities. And, you know, that says it all right there. And, you know, so I get love from the greats wherever I see them, especially in this weekend. It's good to see all the former NBA players and current NBA players. And it's just number 11 respect that, you know, the show. So that means the world to me that amongst those, you know, I can get close to the top 10. Oh, my mom. Appreciate that. Riz, explain that. Oh, I play. I attend. There's a lot of threats in the West. Yeah, I mean, it's a lot of I feel like you never know who can call off and win the West. It was so many deep teams from one to eight or one to 10. It's a lot of deep teams. So we'll see. Just grateful, you know, just as we put a lot of work into those shoes is a big representation of who I am as a person. So for somebody to be representing me like that, it feels pretty cool. No, not in hell. No, no, that's on.