Kevin Durant: How forward reinforced his value in Warriors’ championship run

Editor's note: The Chronicle is reviewing the season of each player after the Warriors' second straight championship run. In the aftermath of their 2016 NBA Finals collapse to Cleveland, the Warriors had to come to terms with the fact that even with a core of Stephen Curry, Klay Thompson, Draymond Green and Andre Iguodala, they were vulnerable against physical teams that forced them out of their ball-movement principles. Without another world-class scorer, they were perhaps too reliant on Curry and Thompson hitting three-pointers. Weeks later, Golden State signed a player in Durant who can bail his team out of the most dire of circumstances.