It wasn’t the ending that Kevin Durant — or the rest of the Suns — expected when the star arrived from the Nets at the 2023 trade deadline.
Kevin Durant and the Suns had an early exit to the postseason.But when asked whether that contributed to the Suns’ early exit, Durant said that he didn’t want to provide additional context since “it would just be looked at as an excuse.”
Instead, Durant said the Suns just need to be better last year, though the exact construction of that team — still searching for the first NBA title in franchise history — remains uncertain. trade scenarios for starting center DeAndre Ayton, who missed the season-ending Game 6 loss with a rib injury and was also benched in Game 3.
“It’s hard right now to see what the future will hold for our team, but we got a good foundation, good infrastructure we could build on and move on from this and learn from it, get better from it,” Durant said Thursday. “It’s a hard question to answer right now. I’m sure that as the summer and offseason starts to progress, we’ll figure that out a little bit more.
In eight regular-season games with the Suns, Durant averaged 26.0 points and 6.4 rebounds per game, and those numbers increased to 29.0 and 8.7, respectively, across 11 playoff games against the Clippers and Nuggets. Denver advanced to the Western Conference final and will face the winner of the Lakers and Warriors, which meet Friday night for Game 6 with Los Angeles leading the series, 3-2.
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