BOSTON — Friday afternoon, hours before the Golden State Warriors squashed the Boston Celtics 104-88, Kevin Durant folded his impossibly long frame into one of TD Garden's baseline chairs to answer questions from the small army of media that immediately enveloped him with cameras, cellphones and digital recorders.
After a few questions about the Boston Celtics—how their fanbase would react to his first appearance against the team he spurned over the summer—a reporter began his question by telling Durant he’s on pace to shatter his career high for dunks in a season.
"I am?" the seven-time All-Star replied with genuine surprise. "Oh wow."
The trend is simple but reveals much about how the 28-year-old’s on-court life has been too easy over the past few weeks.
"I’ve always been a guy that tries to finish over the rim," he said. "When you get the ball out in transition, I think, just running out, grabbing rebounds and, you know, we have so many shooters, it’s allowed me space to kind of operate."
The demolition continued in Boston, as ...
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Kevin Durant Has Been Everything the Golden State Warriors Hoped For
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