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Kevin Durant shoots down Warriors’ ‘super team’ label

San Francisco Chronicle
Published June 14, 2017 at 7:45 PM
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Unlike other loaded teams that are built through trades and free agency, the Warriors became the class of the NBA largely through the draft. Many of Golden State's players have vastly exceeded their draft-day projections. "First of all, if everybody wanted Steph, he would have been the No. 1 pick," Durant said Wednesday of Curry, the No. 7 pick of the 2009 NBA draft. (They said) he couldn't play in the league, he couldn't start in the NBA. Though he played with Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh in Miami before teaming up with Kyrie Irving and Kevin Love in Cleveland, the 13-time All-Star reckons he has never played for a "super team." "I don't believe in that," James said after the Cavaliers' Game 5 loss to Golden State. [...] of how James or Durant view the topic, the Warriors aren't likely to shed their super-team moniker.

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