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Welcome to the Ring or NBA show. I'm Chris Vernon joining me today. Sam Amick from

USA Today and USA Today.com is also the host of NBA A to Z podcast. Sam, what's

up, man? Mr Vernon, good morning. How's that car? You're so you witnessed something

pretty interesting last night. You're at that warrior Celtics game. But before

the game, the big news was Kevin Durant speaking to the assembled media. Tell me

what I need to know about Durant talking last night.

Here's to me the tough to reconcile juxtaposition is that the sense you get around the

warriors even before we heard Kevin talk was a pretty high level of optimism that they

will see him on the floor again before the end of the regular season that he'll have.

A little bit of a lead time going into the playoffs. That was the strong sense that I

got from being around the team. And then in walks Kevin and he's literally looking like

Kevin's grandfather and he's got a walker and he's moved it very slowly. And we talked

afterwards amongst the media folks about how it's been a legitimate week since it happened

and you're obviously talking about a great two MCL sprain and that left me and that

a trivial bone bruise. But I didn't know how to reconcile those two things because he

didn't look like he had progressed at all. He's talking about making strides like extending

his legs. That was the big win for the day. And you see guys go through this and rehab

where it's just a tough grind. And so you know he had a pretty good spirit. He wouldn't

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