“I’m a Grown Up Now”: Kevin Durant Unveiled His Struggles With Gym Stress He Faced Since His Childhood

Kevin Durant is one of the greatest players ever to have played the game of basketball. The Brooklyn Nets superstar is a basketball genius and an offensive savant. Kevin is a seven-foot three-level scorer who can average thirty points a game easily. He has a deadly jump shot, can shoot the ball from three-point range, and get to the basket pretty easily. He also has decent handles for his size to get out of tricky situations.

Durant has won three NBA scoring titles till now and one NBA League MVP in 2014. But being a superstar in this league is not easy. You are under constant pressure to perform, and if you don’t, the pressure just adds up.

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Pressure of going into the gym and just playing basketball

Durant recently went to “The ETCs podcast,” and talked about different stuff including gym stress and how he has been trying to handle it ever since his childhood. Durant said, “ It’s always it’s always felt like that you always hear that if you are not working somebody else is getting better than you so.. that when I hear it as a kid it was embedded in my brain to the point where…. if I haven’t worked out in two days I am constantly think where my jump shot.”

He further said, ” I just start overthinking when I don’t get there.. but when I get a consistent diet of working on my shot, feeling good feeling comfortable with my dribble, body then I feel more at ease.” He also addressed the Nets losing in the first round by saying, “ Losing early in the playoffs I just felt like I din’t deserve to be outside… I enjoy playing and I look at it as I am still I kid playing the game…some of the stuff mentality I gotta get over because I am a grownup now.”

Kevin’s uncertain future

Kevin Durant officially demanded a trade yesterday. This is a seismic news which can change the course of the whole league. Players of Durant’s calibre don’t come on trading blocks often.

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And when they do, teams will move heaven and earth to acquire them.

Pheonix, Miami and the 76ers are expected to make a hard push to sign Kevin. But we can’t blame them. Durant is a transcendent player and if you get the opportunity to sign him, you go all out.