Kevin Durant: ‘All of [the best players] on a few teams’ is ‘what this league is about’

Much of the criticism levied at Kevin Durant for joining the Golden State Warriors last summer was rooted in the idea that a 73-win team added arguably the second-best player in the entire NBA. Sure, some folks weren't fans of the "If you can't beat 'em, join 'em" mentality of jumping from the Oklahoma City Thunder to the team that beat them in a seven-game Western Conference Finals, but mostly people were upset with the idea that the NBA's 2017 champions were a foregone conclusion.