Does Kevin Durant REGRET playing for the Warriors? + RESPONSIBLE for coaching TURNOVER?! | Get Up 

KD has a complicated legacy. Lebron won a title without D Wade; D Wade won a title without Lebron; Steph won a title before and after KD; Kobe won titles without Shaq; Kawhi won a title without the Spurs Big 3; heck even Olajuwon won a title without Drexler. Dirk, Giannis, and Jokic all have titles that will be forever tied to them and no other superstar. So where does that leave KD’s legacy since it will always be tied to the Warriors dynasty?

Nowitzki’s ring is more meaningful than KD’s two.

Obvious answer Yes. Deep down I’m sure KD wanted to win without Curry. KD will always remember Draymond Green telling him we don’t need you and won without him twice

Durant had THE team and left it to join the TEAM that beat him... That's his legacy!!

1:25 Tell him Greeny. People need to stop making excuses for KD

KD is player who played SF for Warriors dynasty between Harrison Barnes and Andrew Wiggins.

The worse thing that happened to KD was leaving the warriors

If OKC Wins the title, that probably earns KD more roasting also lol

KD can't do it without the warriors

KD still hasn't won a ring without Steph Curry😂

Crazy how these guys from the 2010s we grew up watching are almost at the end of their Career

7:42 This is the whole point. You can't demand a trade to an organization, not deliver, and blame the lack of pieces around you for the failure. Organizations are making the trade in hopes that you make them better and deliver results. It's entirely on you.

I'm a Warriors fan, and I certainly give him credit. He was AWESOME! Thank you Kevin Durant.

This is why I can’t understand how people say he’s better than curry. Curry is the only player in this generation that has 4 rings with the same team. Lebron and kd moved around so much to be champions. Curry stuck it out with his team and won his 4th ring with his team. Curry literally changed the whole game of basketball and has a better finals record than everyone in his era. Make it make sense. Curry is the best player in the lebron era 😂😂😂

Darvin and Vogel had the same situation. First year swept. Only difference is the Lakers gave Darvin slack since they changed the team mid season.

Didn't KD have the Warriors 3-1 just asking .....

More than 30 years watching the NBA and I've never actually looked forward to a player being out of the league until Durant

I think he'd regret leaving. If the Warriors came back after the injuries to him and Klay and won a Championship again when they were older like Steph did, the stories would have been changed because the comeback would have been seen a lot more difficult and against a younger NBA. Steph accomplishing it without him and KD not winning it in Brooklyn is what brought the conversation back. But if that Warriors team had stuck together, had those injuries and made their comeback to eventually win a title again, the storyline talking points would be a lot different.

The biggest problem KD has created for himself is demanding to be traded. When a team has to give up that many assets, they become thin going forward. He's now just a performer to sell tickets and merchandise, because the team can't build a proper threat around him to challenge most of the playoff teams. If he didn't know it then, I bet he's figuring it out now. He could have won a title with the Nets, but he had very emotionally challenged stars with him. He needs to remain patient and just hoop as he says. In time he'll be a free agent and then he must not do a sign and trade, because that is just as detrimental to his new teams ability to form a championship contender. It's either the most money, or a lot of money and a chance to win it all.

You guys should really start changing the narrative more. The entire NBA is shifting in the craziest ways and were talking about KDs coach

Kevin Durant joined a 73-9 team which had made back-back trips to the finals, having won it all the previous yr, and had beaten him in the conference finals when he was up 3-1 in the series, and was led by the back-back reigning MVP, who happens to be the best three point shooter of all time, and was paired with another all time shooting aficionado in the back court. Yep. That was the team KD joined.

Now if this was Lebron yall would be destroying his name. 🤦🏾‍♂️ I can’t stand social media

Good ball talk ‼️✔️💯

Probably one of the very few times I 100% agree with Greeny

It will always go back to what Chuck said on who the bus driver/rider analogy..

KD will forever be known as one of the great scorers in NBA, every other part of his legacy will be debated on forever

Joining the Warriors brought him 2 championships and two finals mvps. Why would he regret that? He should regret leaving the warriors. Even with the injury, if he had stayed, he would've won at least 2 ou 3 more chips and 2 finals mvps. It was the worst decision ever.

Durant would be ringless if he hadn't hopped on the Warriors superteam bandwagon

Espn tried so hard to break up the warriors i still remember...same with pushing AD from the Pelicans to LA

Draymond already clothesline durant with the, we already won a ring without you and we will win another ring without you... Can you imagine how kobe career would be looked at, if he didnt win a ring without shaq, especially since shaq ended up winning another ring with wade....

Most ring chasers end up tarnishing their legacy with fans but couldn’t care less. A ring won by any means possible gives more endorsement value after they hang it up and a ring is a ring to just about any player.

I like Andrayas point about superstars going to teams with winning cultures vs just any team

Only on ESPN

But lebron having 7 coaches over 21 seasons vs KD having the same the last 4-5 years isn’t as big a deal 😂😂😂

Oh no, KD should of never left Golden St

The Suns' owner didn't want to hire Vogel in the first place. Vogel wasn't his first choice. Vogel knew this and after the Suns' brought in Beal the expectation was to at least get to the finals. Once they got swept in the first round, Vogel knew he would get let go.

First off if no one is identifying the issues with these coaches, then how many coaches someone had shouldn’t matter.

“Tell me more” 😂😂 Chiney hilarious

They gave dham a rookie coach a shot for 2 years but not a championship coach

Biggest game of the season for Denver tonight. I believe if they win tonight, they can still win the series regardless if they lose Game 4. Anything is possible.

KD to Warriors run it back before retiring.

People can see that it’s almost certain KD would not have won a championship without one of the best teams ever assembled.

Chiney is fireeeee🔥🔥🔥

Alot of stars nowadays are not well educated on the trading mechanisms nor are their agents spending the time to explain it to them. What's the issue you might ask? Trading requires the matching of salaries. These stars simply think that they can name a team that they want to be traded to, and the team will insist on a low-ball offer to get their hands on the star player. It doesn't work that way. Most times, the star play is on max salary which is close to 25% of the salary cap. The team have to match that salary before they can initiate the trade! They have no choice but to gut their bench to get you! If the team was known for its bench depth, you coming in have to make up for the production, not just bringing your production but increasing it.

Where was Zach when they were talking about Bron and his coaches 😅

Kevin Duran did what was necessary and good for him, he is a 2 time champion and nobody can ever take that away from him.

KD comes across as somebody who regrets everything. I wish he never found Twitter. Even if he’d made the same decisions and had the same career, it would’ve looked way different if he never had the time, and the burner.

At this point the nba needs a coach's union for job protection from getting fired

Kd is looking for another super team this summer.

Anyone remember when KD was arguing on Twitter about how defense doesn't win you championships

lol where's the Darvin Ham energy for Frank Vogel?

basketball is a competitive sport, what is puzzling to me is how a guy who ran to join a 73-9 team which beat him has any fans left, it's just pathetic

No I find it highly unlikely that KD wouldn’t go to Golden State if he had to do it over. I think the only things he really probably regrets or doesn’t look back fondly on are the initial criticisms of the decision and how things went and ended that final season. He got 2 seasons of being on one of not only being on potentially the best team ever assembled, but two rings, two finals MVPs and what’s more, the exact thing he had been looking for and wanting on a roster on the floor and seemingly what he has been looking for since. The unselfishness, the ball movement, the not having to just put everything on his shoulders. Enough so that he had the backing and energy on the floor to show he could be an elite defender.

ESPN, you can do better than this.

I applaud the suns for admitting Vogel was not the answer; which lakers' fans already knew👏🏾🖤💜💛

The funny thing about all these ring chasers - Lebron, KD, Harden, Westbrook, Irving, and Love is that they will all be out of the playoffs and the finals could be Cleveland vs. OKC. That would be the most poetic justice ever.

A famous poet once said “No matter where you go there you are.”

im not a kd guy since his next chapter but this coaching changes affecting his legacy is so idiotic

You can’t join the all time winningest regular season team the next season. You just can’t do that. Had he stayed and won 1 ring with OKC w/Russ, we aren’t having this convo or questioning his greatness. But OKC was not helping them. Only recently were they able to re-tool and get lucky with these great young team players.

This should say does he regret leaving Golden State??

The Miami Heat, although out of the playoffs now. Have proved that it's better to not overpay for a superstar player. And field a competitive team backed by a good culture and good coaching. Even if you don't have enough to win it all.

I always felt like Frank changed the team culture. I never felt the comraderie in this team, or the excitement in the locker room as I did with the last coach. Just an observation.

I truly wish he had avoided going to GS, at least adopted a "I'm going somewhere to beat you" mentality, went to San Antonio, and convinced Kawhi to stay. I'm not saying they would have won a championship, but that would have been fun to watch.

That lady in green is always off topic 😂😂😂😂

KD, needs to watch that movie, "It's A Wonderful Life". He truly did have everything he needed and wanted with the Warriors. Steph stepped back as a scorer and Kerr's offense opened up easy baskets for KD. Every player in Golden State had a role and only Klay and KD were looking to score every time they touched the ball. In Phoenix all 5 players were trying to score 60 every night. Durant only had to ball on the Warriors and Steph would be the leader. Phoenix was a bunch of ballers with no path. Phoenix was so disfunctional no one wanted to play there, and the Warriors were able to remain deep with veterans like Cousins, West, and Livingston. People like Charles Barkley got in Durant's head by saying he rides the bus. However, no one has won a championship on their own. Jordan had a Big 3, Magic had a Big 5, Russel had a Big 10, Bird had a Big 3, Isaiah had the Bad Boys. He should've just stayed with the Warriors and embraced being a Warrior like Kareem embraced being a Laker.

Good ol JWill always protecting the players

I think he regrets leaving the Warriors, that was the perfect fit. the media and everyone else beat him down for it

The grass is not always Green(berg).

Should've went to Miami in summer of 2016, He would have 2/3 rings by now

if kd stayed in okc, he woulda had at least one solidly earned ring. if he stayed in the bay, he might've won a few more and entered the top 10 debate. if he stayed in brooklyn, after chasing a super team in golden state now in brooklyn, he could've maintained some of his dignity by trying to do something there. but nope. he chased a THIRD super team with the suns and failed miserably. He has forsaken every good thing he ever had, and deserves his purgatory in phoenix.

A lot of the stars don't care about winning as much as we may want to think. A majority of the stars want their cake and to eat it too with coming over to a new team to "win a championship" while taking up 70% of the cap space for their team and wonder why come playoff time they're the only ones putting the ball in the basket.

why aren't they talking about james jones? in any big business its the senior executives who usually get the axe when things go wrong. in the nba setting, that's the coach and gm, one is given quality players to win while the other one put together the team and managed the budget. also in the nba setting, teams can't just "terminate" a player's contract and trading away a player doesn't also guarantee that they will get equal value in return. believe you me, if these multi million player contracts weren't guaranteed then one of the phoenix big 3 would've been "FIRED" by now.

Why we would regret winning ? Why he would regret playing in a good franchise for the only time in his career? Why he would regret being a champion? Seriously i think he does not regret any of these.

If Greenberg says something is fascinating, then it's not.

At 7:38 greeny finally taking a pause on his ridiculous thoughts

ESPN slick, they added the coach from his rookie year as part of that list. They really hate that dude.

Gotta have a legacy in the first place

The owner is aware that the coach is not at fault. He has to show the fans an immediate change to keep them engaged and firing the coach is the easiest for that .

Kevin Durant is Charles Barkley if he never goes to golden state. It’s undeniable now. No chips without Steph . Bron has won ( and lost ) every where he went , with players like kyrie Irving , Dwayne wade , AD , and also bags of potato ships . KD has never taken a bag of potato chips to the finals.

Jay Williams licks kd’s boots man. Man defends him to no end.

What legacy?

How many times are yall gonna do the same slanderous hit piece? Oh I know….untill it sticks right. KD isn’t the only NBA player that lost in the playoffs this year and your golden boys that yall say he he shouldn’t have left, have missed the playoffs two of the last three years but Curry gets no heat for completely missing the playoffs right? That doesn’t affect his legacy

Durant to the Lakers!

Zach doesnt like BS narratives...love it !

Two titles are something people dream of there’s no way you regrets going to the Warriors, and a comparison to Kevin joining the them back then would be like Lebron joing Denver next year.

Enough about these old players. I know they make great storylines, but people like this have nothing to do with what’s going on at the top levels of professional basketball.

Phoenix had a nice squad before the KD trade. All they had to do was swap out Chris Paul for a younger point guard

The Wolves are looking like they are about to sweep the defending Champs, Sun's getting swept isn't looking so bad anymore. Give the Wolves and Ant they credit.💯

FYI Search *"Ryan Davis"* response to KD, and you'll be mind blown at how accurate he was about Durant 9 months before this stuff💀. They had online beef because dude told KD he doesn't know what it takes to win. KD trashed dude, so Brodie went on a 5 minute surgical roast spree that was proven true after this embarrassing loss

not true, many successful business people are successful because they are willing to take risks and not seem patient...

The question is why did kd leave warriors when warriors did so much for him

These people making excuses for KD. If this was Bron they be killing him.

Greeny I love it hold them accountable

He should have gone to Miami on two occasions.

This is what happens when people care more about ESPN talking points than watching sports.

Of course he does. He'll never say it out loud or in his burner accounts.

J will desperately trying to get in good graces with KD again.

The bucks issue is Gianni’s was injured. If healthy they are still playing

They were up and down the whole season. They ran into a juggernaut that totally out played them. Which Minnesota is out playing the defending championships. I think Vogel should have had another shot at it personally.

Playing and winning a title with the Warriors both helped and hurt KD. He’ll undoubtedly go down as one of the greatest players but he didn’t have a choice but to leave. He had to prove himself again. The coaching changes…that’s a whole different story. He’s going to get fingers pointed at him but that’s the responsibility that comes with being a Hall of Fame type player