A player of Durant’s caliber signing with a team as talented as the Warriors is something straight out of NBA 2K – it feels like something that would happen only in a video game. But it really, actually happened.
How was Golden State able to pull it off? It’s been a long road, dating back as far as the 2009 NBA Draft, but a combination of a little bad luck and a lot of good fortune made this possible.
As the “We Believe” era was coming to an end, the 2008-2009 Warriors finished with a record of 29-53 – seventh-worst in the NBA.