Skip Bayless has been a longtime foe of Dub Nation for some of his Warriors takes over the years. Perhaps his most inflammatory opinion is that Kevin Durant “saved” Steph Curry’s legacy twice, when Golden State won back-to-back titles in 2017 and 2018 led by the two NBA MVPs. When Bayless appeared on a live episode of “The Draymond Green Show” on Friday, Curry’s longtime Warriors teammate gave the commentator a chance to walk back or double down on that take. And unsurprisingly to anyone familiar with Bayless, he chose the latter.“I just believe that with just Steph, I don’t think you would have gotten past LeBron [James] those two times that you did,” Bayless maintained. Bayless then detailed Durant’s move to the Warriors from the Oklahoma City Thunder, just after Golden State came back from a 3-1 deficit in the 2016 Western Conference Finals against that Durant-led Thunder team.“And so he comes with the weight of the basketball world on his slender shoulders out to you guys,” Bayless continued. “And it wasn’t the greatest sort of off-court fit, because it was a little clashy between...
Skip Bayless doubles down that Kevin Durant ‘saved’ Steph Curry’s legacy twice
Published February 14, 2026 • 3 hrs ago
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