From Curry to Harden: Kevin Durant Names Top 5 Players He’s Ever Played With

From Curry to Harden: Kevin Durant Names Top 5 Players He’s Ever Played With

Edwin Kiplagat
updated at April 12, 2023 at 8:25 PM
  • Kevin Durant has played with some greats in his 16-year career in the NBA
  • The new Phoenix Suns man listed the top five teammates he's played with
  • The two-time champion made a blockbuster trade from the Brooklyn Nets

Kevin Durant's blockbuster trade to the Phoenix Suns is still sending shockwaves through the NBA.

The 34-year-old will now team up with All-Stars, Devin Booker and Chris Paul in Arizona.

The two-time NBA champion has played with many future Hall of Famers in his career, with both Booker and Paul the latest in a long list of stars to share the court with Durant.

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Kevin Durant has played with numerous Hall of Fame talents. Photos by Ezra Shaw and Sarah Stier.
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The Suns will be his fourth NBA team. The Seattle SuperSonics drafted the 2014 MVP in 2007, before the team moved to Oklahoma City in the 2008/2009 season.

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At the Oklahoma City Thunder, Durant played with future NBA MVPs in Russell Westbrook and James Harden. Those three went to the 2012 NBA Finals but lost to the Miami Heat in five games.

The 13-time All-Star then joined a star-studded Golden State Warriors team with three future Hall of Famers: Stephen Curry, Klay Thompson and Draymond Green.

Durant lists top 5 teammates

Durant recently teamed up with Kyrie Irving in Brooklyn before they went their separate ways a few days ago. He recently named the five best players he's ever played with in the Million Dollaz Worth of Game podcast.

In the video, he names Kyrie Irving, James Harden, Stephe Curry, Klay Thompson and Serge Ibaka, per SI.

The hosts were baffled because he did not name Westbrook. He later clarified by excluding Ibaka to add the point guard, who was just traded to the Utah Jazz from the LA Lakers.

All of those players have been selected multiple times for the All-Star game and All-NBA teams in their careers. However, Irving, Ibaka, Curry and Thompson are the only players to have won an NBA title.

Durant won two NBA titles with the Warriors in 2017 and 2018. They went to the finals in 2019, but he was injured and the Golden State lost to the Toronto Raptors in six games, per CBS.

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James Harden, Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook all won MVPs. Photo by John W. McDonough.
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Brooklyn's Irving, Durant era over

With Irving's trade to Dallas and Durant's move to the Suns, the Nets begin a new chapter without the two superstars. They were brought in with many expectations but failed to live up to them.

In Brooklyn, they never made the Eastern Conference finals. They missed the playoffs in their first season (2019/2020), lost in the East semis in the 2020/2021 season, then got swept by the Boston Celtic last season.

Durant traded to the Suns

Sports Brief earlier reported on Durant's switch to the Suns just hours before the trade deadline expired.

Phoenix agreed to send three players, four unprotected first-round picks and a 2028 pick swap to the Nets.

34-year-old Durant is now looking to get his hands on his third NBA championship title with his new team.

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Edwin Kiplagat
Edwin Kiplagat has five years of experience in journalism working as a Sports Editor at Africa Insight Communications and ESPN. Edwin Kiplagat is a Bachelor's Degree holder in journalism from the Multimedia University of Kenya.