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#2 Kevin Durant
People over at ESPN may be okay with the blasphemousness of placing KD at the #4 spot among the best players of the upcoming NBA season; I'm definitely not buying it.
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All it takes is one glance through any regular season game played by the Warriors to find the fingerprints of Durant's game all through the game, and what's so great about him during his stint in Oakland is that he's able to do it on both ends of the floor at elite levels.
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A 7-foot small forward with the handles of a point guard and the quickness and length to hang with the league's best rim-runners as a small ball center in addition to being the best pure scorer in the game today. Man, are we really having this conversation?
Not only is Kevin Durant clearly the #2 player in the world, but he is also the Hakeem Olajuwon in an era which has LeBron James as its Michael Jordan. That's just how good a talent he is.
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