Kevin Durant: Part 2 (What Happened in Brooklyn)

Mind the Game with LeBron James and JJ Redick

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Basketball, Sports

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🗓️ 8 July 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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We are thrilled to share Part 2 of our conversation with Kevin Durant on Mind the Game with LeBron James and Steve Nash. First we open with how great the game of basketball is in the year 2025 and how the NBA Finals between the Oklahoma City Thunder and the Indiana Pacers was the perfect manifestation of the modern game. Then KD discusses falling in love with basketball as a young child and how that love grew into obsession. Finally, KD and Nash rehash what happened on their Brooklyn Nets team and how each of them look back on that time today.

Part 1 of our conversation with Kevin Durant can be found on all platforms. Next week will be our Finale of season 2 so be sure to tap in. Thanks for listening to Mind the Game.

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0:00.0	When you think back to our time on Brooklyn, what do you think of?
0:04.0	Man.
0:05.0	This is crazy how fast the game has changed since I came into the lead.
0:22.6	It usually is like a slow uptick, but it's like clearly different from...
0:30.6	Was your last year in league?
0:32.6	14.
0:33.6	It's 14 and now.
0:35.6	Right then is when I feel like it started to do like, that looked like the 90s compared to.
0:38.3	Yeah.
0:39.3	We're done with the 90s.
0:41.3	The 14s, the 10s through the 14s look like the old style of ball because of the, you know.
0:50.3	It's crazy right now.
0:51.3	But now it just looked like we're playing 2K.
0:53.3	I love that we shoot so many threes. I love that we got big shooting th right now. But now it just looks like we're playing 2K. I love that we shoot so many threes.
0:55.3	I love that we got big shooting threes now.
0:58.5	I love that we can't, you got so much space to work.
1:03.5	I even love that that you could throw zones in there.
1:05.8	They're mixing up defense.
1:07.2	That's an evolution, I think, in the last six months even.
1:14.1	That's like when we play Houston, like, he made you docker does a good job.
1:21.5	He will go one possession, regular man, next possession zone, go back to man, the next three possessions zone, all in the first quarter.
1:23.9	In the first quarter, and it's like, okay, how good you are as a team,
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