Kevin Durant: It’s easy to be the best player when you don’t have good players around you
KD: I feel like it’s harder to stand out when you have great players around you
Kevin Durant won his second straight NBA Finals MVP award.
After winning the award, Kevin Durant spoke with Yahoo Sports, saying that he believed it was actually harder to be seen as the best player on the planet when playing with multiple all-stars.
Via Yahoo! Sports:
“I feel like it’s easy to be the best player when you don’t have good players around you. I feel like it’s harder to stand out when you have great players around you,” Durant told Yahoo Sports. “I pride myself on standing out wherever I am. I pride myself on working hard wherever I go. And I feel like these guys embraced me and I feel like I’m a Warrior.”