Kevin Durant can get a massive payday and keep winning titles
By Cody Rivera
Warriors GM Bob Myers said he is willing to pay Kevin Durant whatever he wants to keep him in the Bay Area.
As if Kevin Durant didn’t already have it made before, he’s about to have it made even more so.
Durant and the Golden State Warriors just finished winning their second straight NBA championship (and second straight NBA Finals MVP award for Durant) with a nice, breezy sweep of LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers. The Warriors were dominating the NBA even before Durant arrived in the Bay Area in 2016, but they’ve since taken it to another level.
Their superstar forward will turn 30 just before the start of the 2018-19 season – still very much in his prime – and he’s said that he would love to stay with the Warriors for the foreseeable future. Supposedly, he’s considering retiring around age 35. Until he hits that point, why would he not want to continue being the centerpiece of this Golden State dynasty?
Well, things are about to get even better for Durant, because Golden State GM Bob Myers said he’s prepared to give him whatever deal he wants to keep him in Oakland.
“Sometimes you don’t negotiate,” Myers said, according to an Associated Press article on ESPN.com. “I’d love to have him for 10 years. Kevin Durant, look what he did for us last year. He did us a great service. He’s earned the right to sign whatever deal he wants. I just want him to sign a deal.”
As the GM of the most successful team of the decade, it makes sense why Myers is intent on making sure Durant wants to stay with his team. The Warriors have a handful of integral pieces that have contributed to their three championships in the last four years, such as Stephen Curry, Klay Thompson and Draymond Green. But above all else, Myers has two players that he has to make sure he takes care of, and those two are the former league MVP Curry, and the back-to-back Finals MVP, Durant.
Curry and Durant are both roughly the same age, and both are still in the primes of their careers. When Curry’s career is all said and done, he might go down as the greatest pure shooter in NBA history. And Durant, also a former league MVP, might be the second best pure basketball player in the world today behind LeBron James. In the 2018 Finals, Durant averaged 28.8 points, 10.8 rebounds, and 7.5 assists per game.
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Myers has Curry locked up until at least 2022, and now he just has to make sure he does the same thing for Durant, at whatever cost it may take. As long as he has those two players, the Warriors dynasty won’t be going anywhere any time soon.