Kevin Durant has seen everything the NBA has to offer.
Championships, free agency, heel turns. Durant’s storied career has run the gamut. He’s also a student of the game. Speaking from Suns practice on Friday afternoon, Durant spoke glowingly of Nuggets forward Michael Porter Jr. and deemed him an X-factor for their second-round playoff series.
He knew, for example, that Porter fell all the way to No. 14 in the 2018 draft where the Nuggets were, in Durant’s words, “lucky enough” to draft him. As Durant got to that part of Porter’s story, he smiled knowing how significant a piece Porter has been to Denver’s roster.