Kevin Durant and the Golden State Warriors’ misfortune could become the Phoenix Suns’ winning lottery ticket.
When he dropped in the second quarter of Game 5 of the NBA Finals with what appears to have been a ruptured achilles tendon, Durant suddenly became far more available to a team like the Suns than ever before.
If totally healthy, he is a golden ticket, a basketball panacea of sorts: arguably the best player in the league, a guaranteed winner (for all of his personality flaws), and one of only a small number of human beings on this planet who could turn a team like the Phoenix Suns from a basement dweller into a championship contender overnight.