Recently, O'Neal posted a picture on social media, showing four stars who do not need to prove themselves, they are Leonard, James, Alphabet Brother and Curry, not to mention whether the above four people are worthy of the name, the picture does not appear on the Kevin Durant name is particularly surprising, after all, the latter is a two-time championship and fmvp winner, as well as a regular season MVP and three Olympic gold medals icing on the cake.
So what exactly does Durant need to prove? If according to some fans, that is, he has never won the NBA championship without Curry around, the two rings with the label of "throwing enemies" have not been universally recognized by the outside world, even if the Nets have gathered the Big Three again this season, they still failed to step on the finals stage, and Green's famous "Before you came, we were already champions" is an unbreakable established fact to this day.
But we all forget that before Durant and Curry worked together, the Warriors had just been reversed 1-3 by the Cavaliers led by James in the Finals, becoming the humiliating 73-win overall runner-up, and it was Kerr who took Curry, Tang Shen and Green to invite Durant to join the Warriors, and Durant's actual identity was "savior", not the so-called "door son-in-law".
If it were not for Durant's existence, perhaps the Warriors would still lose at the feet of the Cavaliers in the 17-year Finals, and the 18-year Western Conference Finals would most likely lose to the peak Rockets led by Paul and Harden, and It is also very difficult for Curry to get the last two championship rings, if he does not need to prove himself, then why does Adu need it?
Objectively speaking, the four stars listed by O'Neal are actually deficient, Leonard has no mvp, and the total career score has just broken through ten thousand; the alphabet brother has no solid technical basic skills, and the playoff foot Irving is also an eternal stain; Curry has not yet proved that he can lead the team into the playoffs without Thompson, as for James, he can be said to be the pioneer of the peak group, and the record against Durant in the Finals is 5 wins and 9 losses, which can be said to be in an absolute disadvantage.
Purely from the perspective of basketball, none of these four stars dare to say that they can override Durant, on the one hand, they have personally experienced the horror of death in the process of head-on confrontation with Adu, on the other hand, Durant's surrender is just an old terrier that the media and fans have been reluctant to let go, which cannot hide his strength to block the killing of God and Buddha.
At the beginning of his career, Durant, who has become the scoring king, was once questioned by the outside world that he would not organize with the ball and could not make his teammates better, so he began to learn james to play the ball, and won the first MVP trophy with 32+8+5 all-around data in the 13-14 season of Westbrook's injury reimbursement.
But apart from that, can you find other basketball reasons to deny Durant? You've never seen any technical shortcomings in him, you've never seen him throw a pot at a teammate at a critical moment, and you've never heard that he will play tricks for personal gain, such a star with ability, honor and sense of unity may be the only person in the league who does not need to prove himself again.
This year's Tokyo Olympics, Durant can be said to be with his own strength to lead the United States men's basketball team to win the gold medal, whether it is Leonard who is offensive and defensive, James in all-round, Curry who has no match for shooting or steel letters, can not complete this great task, perhaps this time, Durant will no longer use the keyboard to fight back against O'Neal, but dominate everyone on the court.