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Kevin Durant appears to be doubling down on his Golden State Warriors slander … though it’s not actually that simple. A few weeks after saying the 2026 Philadelphia 76ers are more talented — on paper — than the championship-winning Warriors teams on which Durant played, he appeared to throw the Warriors under the bus again in an interview at the Boardroom. When asked to name the best team — on paper — for which he played, Durant initially responded with the Brooklyn Nets. As Durant explained in the clip, the amount of talent and accomplishments on that team were tough to beat. After naming members of the Nets — including Kyrie Irving, James Harden, Blake Griffin, LaMarcus Aldridge, Paul Millsap, Patty Miles — Durant said, “We had the names on that team. He then explained why he didn’t think his Warriors teams qualified. “I know people are going to say, ‘the Warriors, you had Steph and Klay.’ But I’m like, when you look at that team, though. At the time, Steph was an MVP but Klay and Draymond didn’t get the accolades at that time. They were like one-time All-Stars. “These [Nets players] I’m talking about already completed their careers, damn near, and got all of their accolades on top of me, James and Kyrie. So when you’re just putting accolades on the table, I would say that team.”

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That’s the same argument he made when comparing his Warriors’ teams to the 2026 76ers. Unfortunately, Durant also seemed to anger Klay Thompson with his explanation. Except … upon more reflection, Durant realized he actually picked the wrong team. “Obviously, the best team I played on was the Warriors. I want to say the 2019 team was crazy, but we got hurt. With Cousins at the five, that’s probably the best team I’ve been a part of on paper.” Durant said that team didn’t come to mind initially because he forgot Cousins was on it. Cousins missed a fair amount of time during the 2018-19 NBA season, which explained why he initially dismissed the Warriors.

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Jorge Sierra: The most random players will receive All-Star votes from their peers each year. Some actual good NBA players finish without a single endorsement from fellow players. There were the best each season.

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Jorge Sierra: Jamal Murray’s Player of the Week award is the first individual honor for a Nugget not named Nikola Jokic, in a league-wide eligible category, since Paul Millsap won Player of the Week in 2018. Just so you know.

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Jorge Sierra: Jalen Brunson passed all these players in playoff scoring tonight: Vince Carter George Gervin Anthony Davis George Hill Michael Cooper Don Nelson Paul Millsap He's No. 110 all-time now.

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Atlanta Hawks PR: Dyson Daniels has recorded at least one steal in a career-long 20 straight games, the longest active steal streak in the NBA and the longest by a Hawk since Paul Millsap (21: 12/26/13-2/8/14).

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The Jazz selected him with the 47th overall in the 2006 NBA draft and by his fourth season with them, Millsap found a gear that launched him into the All-Star conversation. Two seasons before his first All-Star appearance he averaged 17.3 points, 7.6 rebounds and 2.5 assists on 39.1% 3-point shooting per game. The following season, he averaged 16.6 points 8.8 rebounds and 2.3 assists per game, but playing a different role, he shot fewer 3′s. But his number dipped again the following year and that one game against the Clippers on Dec. 28, 2012, opened up Millsap to doubt.

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Up against then-Clippers forward Blake Griffin, Millsap remembers Griffin, 23, outcompeting him and the Jazz. They lost to the Clippers by 11 points, and Millsap remembered not putting up his best, scoring 14 points on 4-of-10 shooting, along with seven rebounds. Griffin, however, scored 22 points on 7-of-10 shooting, while going to the free-throw line nine times. He also had 13 rebounds “He beat us,” Millsap told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “And, he definitely outcompeted me that game. And I went to my car after that, and I broke out, and I just cried, and I just like, ‘Dang, I think I missed my chances of being an All-Star.’”

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But Millsap, who last played in the NBA during the 2021-22 season, also remembered that moment, along with the Jazz not re-signing him, motivating him to work even harder. “When I say that, I trained super hard (that summer),” Millsap said. “I had a basketball court in my house. I used to go down there every single day, every single night, and train, train, train. I even put together some of my own, training programs, just picking things here and there and putting it together and understanding what I needed to do.”

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On July 10, 2013, Millsap signed a two-year deal with the Hawks. By January 2014, he earned his first All-Star nod after coaches voted him as a reserve. He was averaging 17.8 points, 8.2 rebounds, three assists, 1.7 steals and 1.2 blocks per game. He credits then-Hawks coach Mike Budenholzer, who sent him a congratulatory message following Tuesday’s news, for motivating him simply to play his game. “I don’t think coming in, they knew, you know, I was gonna be that good,” he said with a little laughter. “I don’t think I knew I was gonna be that good. But he definitely wanted me to expand my game out and stretch the floor a little bit more and do a little bit more playmaking. “And within all that, you know, there’s doubts amongst you know, a lot of people around you, ‘Oh, you may not be good, or we may need to do something else.’ And as a player, you hear all that stuff, and a lot of that stuff is really what drove me and motivated me to be better than what I was.”

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Shams Charania: After 16 NBA seasons, four-time All-Star Paul Millsap has retired from basketball. Millsap, the No. 47 pick in the 2006 NBA draft, spent his career with the Jazz, Hawks, Nuggets, Nets and 76ers. One of eight players all-time with 500 3-pointers, 1,000 blocks and 1,000 steals.

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The popularity of women's sports continues to grow as the Atlanta VIBE Pro volleyball team takes on their first season. Atlanta VIBE volleyball players are off to a great start, winning both of their down-to-the-wire matches on the road. As they return home, a surprise investor will be in the crowd cheering them on -- Former NBA player and Atlanta Hawk Paul Millsap.

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The 4-time NBA All-Star chose to invest in the team because he saw how much the sport meant to his own daughters, who played volleyball in high school. "I see the energy. I see the enthusiasm. I see women leading out there," said the former NBA player. "And that's awesome to see because I got four daughters, and for them to look on TV or look on social media and see women out there empowering, it's an amazing feeling."

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