Kevin Durant on his Thunder jersey No. 35: ‘That thing’s going to be in the rafters’

Kevin Durant is pretty certain the Thunder will raise his No. 35 to the rafters one day. Headlines from the first month of the NBA season were dominated by the struggles of LeBron James' Cleveland Cavaliers, the rise of Kyrie Irving's Boston Celtics and unicorn-y MVP candidacies from New York Knicks phenom Kristaps Porzingis and Milwaukee Bucks sensation Giannis Antetokounmpo, so maybe Golden State Warriors forward figured it was time for his brand to get some publicity. Whatever the reason, Durant has granted in-depth interviews to GQ magazine's Zach Baron and Bleacher Report's Ric Bucher, and we've been hit with a wave of revelations by the reigning Finals MVP — from claiming he's "on the same level as a basketball player" as LeBron James to conceding "I don't want to have to be the leader" and calling his Twitter fiasco this past summer "one of the worst days of his life" — so we seemed to be hitting the over-saturation point on Durant news pretty quickly.