Brooklyn Nets forward Kevin Durant said winning his first NBA championship with the Golden State Warriors in 2017 shifted his focus from titles to pushing himself to become the best player possible.
Durant explained his mindset leading up to his first of two titles with the Warriors and how it's changed since in an interview with ESPN's Rachel Nichols for SportsCenter released Saturday:
"I wasn't expecting to be a happy human being from a title. I was just expecting like, you know, the ending of a movie -- once you worked so hard and everybody tells you like, 'Yo, this is what you need to be working for, is this gold ball and these rings.