When you think back to our time in Brooklyn, what do you think of? LeBron James: Him stepping on that damn three-point line. Kevin Durant: I can’t get away from it, too, ’cause they’re gonna repost that and tag me in it. But we had this conversation in Portland, I think—right before a game—and I’m like, “Who am I spending my next five years with?” I had just signed that deal. You had just signed a deal. I feel like we were secure, but everything else around us was going to shit—not in a bad way. We got GMs going to other teams. We got coaches going to other teams. We got players forcing trades. We brought in Ben Simmons—he’s back. It was just so much stuff going on around us. I feel like we were locked in, on the same page, and understanding like—we’re trying to do something special here. But I felt like your hands were tied a lot because, as a coach, you’ve got to deal with so much. You didn’t get to coach as much as I wanted you to. That’s what it was. I didn’t think we got the full Steve Nash—like I wanted, like you probably wanted. I just felt like there were too many distractions. You can’t win that way. But I felt like we had great intentions, though. I felt like we cared enough. I felt like every day we were trying to push towards winning the championship. It was a great vibe in there—some of the best times, that first year. That’s why I signed that deal that first year, man.
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