Via ESPN:
What league insiders expect: People around the league are hopeful Durant can come back at something approaching the player he was before. But the combination of his age (32 next season) and the severity of the injury makes insiders uncertain he’ll be the same superstar at the start of the season.
“I think Durant will probably have the worst year of his career,” an executive said. “No fault to him, but people don’t come back from Achilles injuries and tear the league up.
“It’s all relative. In the worst year of his career, he might be the 25th-best player in the league, and they might win 50 games. I just don’t see them being a realistic contender barring some moves.”
The NBA exec isn’t wrong, but he shouldn’t have said that about KD. He’s not the type of guy you want to add any kind of motivation to. He feeds of the haters, that’s why he’s always mixing it up on social media.
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