VIDEO ⟩ Will Phoenix “Dog” with Durant pull the full draw?

Arriving in Phoenix, Durant believes he has every chance to win his third NBA ring. “I think we have everything we need to be a successful team. We have players with experience who know how to play in the late playoffs. We have a champion in the general manager’s chair overseeing us. Monty (Williams) is a champion as a coach. If having gained experience in winning championships is already half the victory.”

At the end of the press conference, the crowd of fans again cheered loudly for Durant, and it goes without saying. Despite the year of Kevin’s birth, he is still one of the best basketball players in the NBA. Durant is averaging 29.7 points, 6.7 rebounds and 5.3 assists in 39 games played this season. The American takes shots from the field with almost 56% accuracy. Durant and Devin Booker will be one of the most unstoppable scoring duos in the entire league, plus the team has a great offensive maestro in Chris Paul. We can’t forget center DeAndre Ayton either.

However: Phoenix takes risks! Durant is recovering from a knee injury and since 2018/2019. has not played more than 55 games in one season of the NBA calendar. There’s a good chance Durant will get more and more injured as he ages. His teammates have also been plagued by injuries, with Chris Paul regularly dealing with injuries during the playoffs, while Booker missed six weeks this season with a strained left groin.

It would be a disaster if injuries prevented Phoenix from winning the title, as the future of the club was placed in the hands of the Brooklyn Nets owners, both in terms of players and draft picks. The owner of “Dog” shows no concern that this lot might be empty. “There’s no risk in this deal. I look at it as a vision and a decision. Make your decisions and move forward. It doesn’t mean everything is going to work out or we’re going to win a bunch of championships and immediately realize it was the right move because there are games to be played. But I don’t see it as a risk at all. I know what the vision is, I’m going to own this team for 50 years, so there’s zero risk. I don’t have to come in and win the first year, but at the same time, there’s nothing in my life where I don’t want to win .”

Clearly, the pressure on the team is great. The club has been given two, maybe three seasons to win the Larry O’Brien title. The 13-time All-Star has been given two months before the end of the season to get to know his teammates on the court and learn the coach’s game plan, and in the playoffs, the team will expect Durant’s top-level basketball to finally become the best basketball team on the planet, the Phoenix Suns. .