It’s not just NBA fans wondering what would have happened if Kevin Durant stayed with the Golden State Warriors. His mom thinks about it, too.
Wanda Durant starred in the latest episode of the docuseries Raising Fame, in which she briefly touched upon Durant’s short stint in the Bay Area. Durant teamed up with Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson for three dynasty-defining seasons from 2016 to '19, reaching the NBA Finals in each campaign and winning two NBA championships during that span.
Despite Durant’s injury-plagued final season with the Warriors, his mom admitted she didn’t want him to leave Golden State at the time and gave a lofty, though exaggerated, prediction for what could have happened if he had stayed instead.
“Sonya, you and I, we were in the thicket together for a few years,” Durant told Sonya Curry, Steph’s mother, on the show. “I ain’t really want him to go either… Man, we would've had 20 rings by now. And it was about 10 years ago. That's how cold they were.”
"We would've had 20 rings by now. And it was about 10 years ago. That's how cold they were."
— Duane Rankin (@DuaneRankin) August 12, 2024
Wanda Durant and Sonya Curry on sons Kevin Durant and Stephen Curry during @tvonetv "Raising Fame" Sunday.
Durant and Curry won 2 NBA titles together with Golden State. #Suns #DubNation pic.twitter.com/mKvddK22fh
In his last season in Golden State, Durant suffered a ruptured Achilles in the 2019 NBA Finals against the Toronto Raptors, and the Warriors ended up falling tantalizingly short of a historic three-peat, losing 2-4 in the series.
Durant has since hopped from the Warriors to the Brooklyn Nets’ failed superteam experiment to the Phoenix Suns, where he has won just one playoff series in the last two years. The Suns were swept by the Minnesota Timberwolves in the first round this past postseason.
Durant and Curry linked up for what could be the final time in this summer’s 2024 Paris Olympics, which culminated in a watershed moment for both NBA icons’ respective careers. Curry made an indelible mark in his Team USA debut as one of the coldest shooters the Games has ever seen while Durant became the first player in Olympic men’s basketball history to win four gold medals.
If the two all-time greats don’t share a court again, at least they have this: the feeling of winning Olympic gold and sharing one last title together, for old times’ sake.
This article was originally published on www.si.com as Kevin Durant’s Mom Jokes He ‘Would’ve Had 20 Rings’ If He Stayed With Warriors.
