In the NBA as elsewhere, matches played away can be close to real tests for the players. Everyone will therefore tend to favor less stormy trips in their minds… except perhaps Kevin Durant.
To hope to win an NBA title, it is better to be invincible or almost invincible at home. This, while at the same time managing to be sufficiently solid away from its bases to achieve some results. However, most of the league’s stars logically prefer to play in their franchise’s gym and fear traveling more. Except perhaps the most experienced.
Take for example Kevin Durant. After 15 years in the NBA, the Suns winger has learned to master the hostile environments that he and his team can face outside. Since the start of his career, his level of performance has never really tended to collapse on enemy territory. This, even if some opposing fanbases do everything possible to disconcert him when he visits them.
Kevin Durant reveals his surprising favorite room in the NBA
Whether because of their hometown or their feelings there, each player displays a preference when it comes to opposing rooms. For his part, Durant could have cited that of the Wizards, he who was born in Washington DC and who spent a major part of his childhood there. And yet, on the occasion of the Suns Media Day, he made a more unexpected statement on the subject:
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KD says OKC is his favorite opposing city to play in:
— Clemente Almanza (@CAlmanza1007) October 4, 2023
My favorite trip? Oklahoma City.
We could have expected anything from KD… except this. The Thunder room in fact very probably appears to be the one in which he is least well received. His departure to Golden State in 2016 has still not been digested by many OKC fans, who have since made great mockery of him. The famous songs calling it “Cupcake” have also become completely legendary:
OKC Thunder fans chant « Cupcake » at Kevin Durant pic.twitter.com/adNK7WRJLl
— Gifdsports (@gifdsports) February 12, 2017
In his career, Kevin Durant has experienced many dubious audiences, including that of the Thunder. The leader of the Suns, however, does not seem bothered by this phenomenon since he declares that he loves his returns to the Paycom Center.
2023-10-05 17:10:00
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