Kevin Durant on Kyrie Irving: ‘I Can Really Appreciate What He Did’

Kevin Durant went on the Bill Simmons Podcast Friday and offered his support for Kyrie Irving, whose decision to push for a trade and the resulting move to the Boston Celtics has shaken up the league's landscape. Durant said he saw similarities between Irving's move and the one he made last summer, when Durant left the Oklahoma City Thunder to join the Golden State Warriors. "He did what he was supposed to do in Cleveland.