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Kevin Durant Talks LeBron-Esque Recruiting in '16 and 2019 Free Agency

Golden State Warriors superstar Kevin Durant is using past experiences to help him prepare for the road ahead.

When he hit the open market in 2016, he was courted by a number of teams in the Hamptons as they looked to add the former MVP to their roster. Now that he is on the two-time defending champs, he expects there to be even more hoopla surrounding his impending free agency after the season.

Durant told The Athletic's Michael Lee:

"You seen the coverage around LeBron's free agency, and I knew that that type of attention would come, and playing in a small market where nobody [outside of Oklahoma City] really came to see us, unless it was a huge game, it's a lot to take in.