{"id":331623,"date":"2026-08-28T05:18:50","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T05:18:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/331623\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T05:18:50","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T05:18:50","slug":"kevin-durant-claims-brooklyn-nets-were-obviously-best-team-he-played-on-over-golden-state-warriors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/331623\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Durant claims Brooklyn Nets were &#8216;obviously&#8217; best team he played on over Golden State Warriors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>   <a class=\"fw\" href=\"https:\/\/profile.google.com\/cp\/Cg0vZy8xMWcxajNfc2h3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"28\" height=\"28\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hitc.com\/wp-content\/themes\/grv-media\/img\/google-discover.svg\" alt=\"\"\/> Follow us on Google Discover <\/a>  <\/p>\n<p>The Golden State Warriors with Kevin Durant are widely considered to be the most stacked team in NBA history. But KD himself thinks it was his best roster.<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Durant\u2019s move to the Golden State Warriors back in 2016 was one of the most unpopular decisions in NBA history. This was largely due to the fact that his addition made them virtually unstoppable. <\/p>\n<p>The Warriors showed this almost instantly, too. The team won back-to-back NBA championships in ruthless fashion, barely losing any games on their way to winning it all. <\/p>\n<p>Durant left the Warriors in 2019, but it wasn\u2019t the last superteam he played on. And even though the Brooklyn Nets never got to the promised land, Durant thinks that roster was even more loaded. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"740\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/GettyImages-1233219741-1024x740.jpg\" alt=\"Brooklyn Nets Vs Boston Celtics At TD Garden\" \/>Photo by Jim Davis\/The Boston Globe via Getty ImagesKevin Durant says Nets roster \u2018on paper\u2019 was better than the Warriors<\/p>\n<p>When Brooklyn created the Big 3 involving KD, Kyrie Irving, and James Harden, other veteran stars also joined in to be role players. In terms of talent, that team was incredible. <\/p>\n<p>And Durant thinks that when just looking at the two rosters alone, the Nets had it better than even Golden State did during those peak years for the franchise.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLooking at the straight roster and nothing else, I would say Brooklyn,\u201d Durant said on Boardroom Talks. \u201cKyrie, James, Blake Griffin, Paul Millsap, Patty Mills. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had names on that team if we\u2019re looking at straight paper. I know people are going to say the Warriors, but if you look at the team at that time, Steph was an MVP, but Klay and Draymond didn\u2019t have the accolades at that time. <\/p>\n<p>MORE KEVIN DURANT STORIES<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey were like one-time All-Stars. These dudes I\u2019m talking about had already completed their careers; they had all their accolades.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Accolades alone cannot decide a player\u2019s value but Durant has a fair point in terms of the names on that team. As good as they were, though, the Warriors in 2017 and 2018 were still in a different league altogether. <\/p>\n<p>Join Our Newsletter<\/p>\n<p>Receive exclusive football transfer news and updates twice a week to your mailbox<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Follow us on Google Discover The Golden State Warriors with Kevin Durant are widely considered to be the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":331624,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,355,99,9140,18926,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-331623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-nets","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-golden-state-warriors","tag-kevin-durant","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}