I tried to care about the Kevin Durant trade but I just can’t do it

“KD is a snake”

I’ll never forget the image that my friend texted me from the beach he was at in Maine, just after the 4th of July in 2016. Some disgruntled basketball fan had emblazoned those words into the sand, capturing what myself and many other young basketball fans were feeling. Kevin Durant, who was at worst the third-best player in the world at the time, had signed with the 73-win Golden State Warriors, and life as we knew it was over.

But here we are in 2025, and Durant and the Houston Rockets are asking me to care again. Shams Charania’s post-draft tweet reminding all of us

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