Former two-time Golden State Warriors Finals MVP Kevin Durant has taken a bit of an indirect dig at former teammate Stephen Curry.
After eight frustrating seasons logged playing alongside one of the league’s more inefficient, ball-dominant jump shooters in Russell Westbrook on the Oklahoma City Thunder (and nine in Oklahoma City overall), then-free agent Durant decided to sign with a team that had won an NBA-record 73 games just the year before.
Armed with Durant, Curry, Klay Thompson and Draymond Green — four Hall of Famers in their absolute primes — the new-look Warriors obliterated the competition for three straight seasons together, appearing in three consecutive NBA Finals and only losing in 2019, when wear and tear yielded devastating injuries for Durant and Thompson against the Toronto Raptors.
Durant, a versatile two-way behemoth and one of the best scorers ever, supplanted Curry (himself a two-time league MVP) as the Warriors’ clear best player during those runs — again, during Curry’s prime.
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The perennially online now-Houston Rockets power forward shed some light on why he is now so loathed by Golden State fans, although his guess may be a bit off the mark.
Y do warriors fans hate KD lmao
— cam 🂡 (@Sc30pion) August 10, 2025
“[Why] do [Warriors] fans hate KD lmao,” asked fan @Sc30pion.
Them finals mvps, they will never recover
— Kevin Durant (@KDTrey5) August 10, 2025
“Them finals MVPs, they will never recover,” Durant replied, seemingly alluding to the fact that he won both Finals MVP awards in the two championships he won alongside Curry and co., in 2017 and ’18. Curry also missed out on the honor in 2015. Forward Andre Iguodala took home the award instead.
Curry finally won his lone Finals MVP while leading the Warriors to their 2022 title, years after Durant’s departure.
Ultimately, Durant may be overlooking another big reason fans are frustrated with them: the 6-foot-11 superstar ditched Golden State after just three seasons for the Brooklyn Nets. He then forced his way to the Phoenix Suns in a 2023 trade, and just this summer was flipped to the Rockets.
Fans may be envious that the player who left nabbed Finals MVP awards that otherwise would have been Curry’s, but of course Durant’s otherworldly play helped ensure Golden State would even make three more Finals.
Really, wouldn’t it make more sense for fans to feel frustrated that a soon-to-be-37-year-old player who’s still a top-25 level talent abandoned the team so quickly, when he clearly had so much more high-level basketball left to play?
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