NBA Kevin Durant and Stephen Curry
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Stephen Curry and Kevin Durant formed a terrifying tandem at the Warriors for a few years. However, the Chief had admitted in an interview that he had serious fears about their success, especially after their first steps together…

If you had to pick just one teammate of Stephen Curry’s from his Warriors career, it would definitely be Klay Thompson, with whom he formed the Splash Brothers.

But Kevin Durant is without a doubt the best player the point guard has ever played with.

You only have to look at the duo’s insane success between 2016 and 2019 to realize how crazy Golden State was at that time.

Three Finals in as many years with a back-to-back to boot and two Finals MVP titles for the Slim Reaper: suffice to say that his highly controversial departure from OKC had paid off.

But everything didn’t go perfectly from the start, as No. 30 confided on the Knuckleheads podcast in February 2022. Tactically, Durantula’s arrival did indeed involve major upheavals:

Stephen Curry’s doubts about Kevin Durant’s integration

From the first game of the season to the Christmas Day game, it wasn’t a pretty sight. Our record was solid, but it wasn’t where it should have been.

Maybe I internalized that as a point guard and as a guy who felt like he had to get everybody involved, there’s a little bit of insecurity, ‘There’s so much talent. Is this going to work?’

I started counting the shots and thought, “Okay, he’s going to get 20. He’s going to get 19… How are we going to do this?”

Besides the Chief and KD, there was also the need to give Klay Thompson enough balls to shoot from behind the arc and even Draymond Green as the offensive mastermind. That was a real headache, even for a genius like Steve Kerr.

As history has shown us, however, the Dubs quickly found the right formula and the result was one of the most incredible steamrollers we’ve ever seen in the NBA’s 75-plus years.

Led by their two elite scorers, they simply steamrolled the league for three years and if not for a cascade of injuries in the 2019 Finals, Curry and Durant might have had a resounding three-peat.

Stephen Curry was extremely apprehensive about the debut of his duo with Kevin Durant, if only because it involved major tactical changes. However, his doubts were ultimately dispelled after just a few weeks.