For Kevin Durant, the accolades keep mounting. He is the consensus best player in the world. He was MVP in the Olympics, winning his third gold, trying him for most ever in men’s basketball. And although the Nets couldn’t get beyond the second round, his performances in Games 5 and 7 were post-season classics. And he did it all after a year-long rehab from an Achilles tendon rupture.
Of course, he’d already won two NBA rings with the Warriors and got to two other Finals. He won the Finals MVP along with those two rings, a regular season MVP and two All-Star Game MVPs to go with his 11 selections.