I think Kevin Durant is going through a mid-career crisis. A lot of players deal with this, just most aren’t so open about it. Maybe it is just the way the world is now with social media and all these opportunities to speak your mind. It is easier to get things off your chest when everyone is always asking you questions.
KD did a pretty in depth interview with GQ where he talked about dumping his fiancee and feeling like he will be alone.
Outside this coffee shop, there are multiple millions of people representing multiple millions of dollars—shoe companies, league executives, agents, little kids with big KD posters on their walls—with opinions on what he should and should not be saying at this particular moment. A whole universe bending to be like: Talk about your will to succeed. Your work in the community. How you know what it takes to win.
But what he wants to say right now is this: “I go to sleep at night, like, ‘Am I gonna be alone forever?’ ” A whole ocean of regret. His life too hectic, and too surrounded by money, to trust, let alone love, the next person who comes through that door.
“Am I gonna be alone forever? Am I gonna have kids?”
Almost seven feet tall in a sweat suit, body like God wanted him to be this good.
“I feel like there’s no hope. But I still gotta have faith.”
What is going on with KD seems to be bigger than basketball. It is like he looked in the mirror one day, started to see his true self and decided to share all his emotions and frustrations with us. It is refreshing and hopefully therapeutic for him.