{"id":139899,"date":"2025-07-01T19:27:20","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T19:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/139899\/"},"modified":"2025-07-01T19:27:20","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T19:27:20","slug":"kevin-durant-says-thunder-werent-ready-after-teams-2012-finals-run-they-werent-ready-for-us-to-be-yearly-contenders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/139899\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Durant says Thunder weren\u2019t \u2018ready\u2019 after team\u2019s 2012 Finals run: They weren\u2019t ready for us to be yearly contenders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VUzP2PvXeoY&amp;t=2618s\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"Read more on YouTube\" target=\"_blank\">Kevin Durant: So, do you think the profile of players change? Like I\u2019m been thinking I\u2019m like I don\u2019t know if the 6-2 and under guard is at a premium no more as a starter. Maybe as a backup.<\/a> But you have to be\u2026 LeBron James: We just talked about this in the last\u2026 Steve Nash: It\u2019s gotten compressed. It\u2019s that like either Donovan Mitchell, Drew Holiday 6-3, Lou Dort\u2026 Durant: You can\u2019t get picked on defense. That\u2019s the thing cuz we playing such a pick on game that they will really literally, if you can\u2019t guard they will bring you up every play. And six foot, 6-1, and you\u2019re not a bulldog like a Davion Mitchell, Jrue Holiday on the defensive side, or you not an offense that\u2019s flat out savant like Kyrie Irving, where you can score on dudes seven feet easily in ISO, then I just can\u2019t see it. -via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VUzP2PvXeoY&amp;t=2618s\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> YouTube<\/a> \/ July 1, 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kevin Durant: So, do you think the profile of players change? Like I\u2019m been thinking I\u2019m like I&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139900,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3783],"tags":[7,1363,6,310,475,179,3966,3965,3136,2543,312],"class_list":{"0":"post-139899","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-oklahoma-city-thunder","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-main-rumors","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-oklahoma","12":"tag-oklahoma-city","13":"tag-oklahoma-city-thunder","14":"tag-oklahomacity","15":"tag-oklahomacitythunder","16":"tag-sam-presti","17":"tag-steve-nash","18":"tag-thunder"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114779628894690916","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}