Kevin Durant returns to Seattle

This is where my Warriors journey began! As the longtime P.A. Announcer for the Seattle Sonics & Storm, I was invited to call the 2018 Kings vs. Warriors pre-season game at Seattle's Key Arena. Months later I was hired as the Golden State Warriors P.A. Announcer at the brand new Chase Center in San Francisco!
Key Arena was electric for the first NBA game in Seattle since the Sonics left in 2008. Kevin Durant was a rookie for the Sonics in 2008. Ten years later he was back with the two-time defending champion Golden State Warriors. It was love all around!

[@don8244]

KD retiring with the expansion Sonics would be amazing to see

[@bihapi]

Keep glazing bro lebron in 6

[@Im_superbored]

@@bihapitf you on about

[@AB-sw4kb]

@@bihapiwhat the fuck

[@tylerclayton6081]

@@bihapi What does that even mean?

[@bihapi]

my best betting today is 100$ x10.91 haha

[@gonetilaugust]

This man putting on half the league jerseys

[@RandalfElVikingo]

He collects jerseys like women collect men.

[@patiburkot]

Nah that’s crazy

[@Reefhomie_Jon]

That was his first jersey tho 🤷‍♂️

[@johnhill762]

That’s the team he was drafted to….

[@ralph7077]

Lol

[@user-be5mj7wy8u]

he’s forever sonics

[@Funkylover-sl7ew]

seatlle oakland and new jersey need teams back

[@ThePhenomm]

Seattle yes New Jersey NO

[@wilderac2250]

I mean technically speaking the warriors didn’t “leave”.

[@_CoasterNinja]

Vancouver too!

[@Advent616]

@@wilderac2250 yeah. Anyone who lives in the Bay Area knows Oakland and SF are just a stone's throw apart. Shouldn't take you more than 2hrs at worst with traffic to make the trip from one to the other.
It's why the Raiders and Niners Battle of the Bay rivalry was so huge because you had 2 teams occupying the same area.

[@Advent616]

@@ThePhenomm agreed. I don't feel the move was all that significant.

[@Phoenix-pm2qr]

He needs to sign with them when they return in a few years

[@LimitedSpartan]

I was here for this!

[@thunderzproductions5474]

bruh seattle could of had Kd westbrook and harden through the early 2010s . i hated to see the team leave the city.

[@SeymourBJohnson]

Thunder Up!

[@PhillipCummingsUSA]

It wouldn't have mattered. They were all talent no heart.

[@smellslikeproductions1024]

Seattle is a heroin/transsexual paradise now

[@SeymourBJohnson]

@@PhillipCummingsUSA You don't know ball at all. Westbrook has no heart? Clay Bennet didn't want to pay the luxury tax to keep Harden, choosing Ibaka instead. Golden State went on to have the legacy because they did exactly that: pay the luxury. You might be able to say that about KD, but still... No ball. And Seattle is still teamless. Thunder Up!

[@dre32pitt]

leave? more like hijacked, lol..
"im not moving the team" Moves the team......

[@markradewagen5075]

wow what a neat moment

[@d3adyoutubeaccount]

I don’t think people realize that if the team was still in Seattle, he wouldn’t have left. His hometown is Seattle, not OKC.
Edit: I confused Washington DC with the other Washington, that’s my bad.

[@DeAnthonyWhitley]

KD is from Washington DC not the other Washington

[@ChaseProdz4]

Cap he is a snake

[@stevenscummy1458]

That's 15+ years ago, who's to say he wouldn't leave Seattle if the team wasn't a strong contender. And Seattle isn't his hometown either, it's where he started his NBA career though

[@rahamanawelenje9955]

He still would of left anyways what are you talking about.

[@gingervsginger7305]

no bro
thats the wrong washington

[@HipixOFFICIAL]

Rest in peace Kevin.

[@DawkinsProdz]

bro what

[@KJAeditzNBA]

??

[@FateZ9910]

Bros predicting the future

[@Ty420]

This guy is 45 years ahead of us

[@ceeal2943]

KD callin Lebron the GOAT....this guy is nuts

[@Pepsolman]

Based.

[@Thememer2012]

Are they bringing back the Supersonics?

[@theemotionalremix]

No.

[@DannyXalt]

@@theemotionalremixHow do u know

[@theemotionalremix]

@@DannyXalt this video is from 2018. If something was going to happen, it should've happened by now.

[@JessicaSoto-qg5pm]

Sigma

[@spanzotab]

@@theemotionalremix the next NBA expansion will most likely include seattle and maybe vegas

[@JawnNawva]

This was his Cleveland

[@Fakename70]

What? He’s from DC though.

[@JessicaSoto-qg5pm]

REst in peace keviny durany

[@d.anthony4363]

Would Durant have left the Sonics for GSW if it hadn't changed to OKC Thunder

[@CapuchinCharlie]

no

[@areg5705]

he changing teams like socks

[@S.C.-wo8hq]

Seattle is so much better than OKC.

[@LeFlopPleaseRetireNow]

Returns to seattle to ring chase😂

[@DurkMcGerk]

Ayyy 😎

[@saijovierundachtzig6346]

Wow, wow ..Video ends...wtf?!!!

[@2H2521]

Can’t stand him, but this is very cool.

[@Supyloco]

Kevin Durant would've left Seattle and gone to Golden State. Don't delude yourselves.

[@R__K]

...FROM 2018.
Context, pass it on. Clickbait shit.

[@juniorhernandez3347]

Most cities need more important things done first besides tourist attractions and entertainment distraction in their city... js Nice tribute tho

[@Fakename70]

Embarrassing. The guy played there for a mere season and he gets a hero’s welcome upon his return?
This is the same city and fan base that booed Shawn Kemp upon his return to Seattle with Cleveland in 1997-98 as if the 8 seasons he played with the Sonics didn’t happen.

[@andreaishitani2827]

This is actually fake

[@Fakename70]

It was a preseason game in Seattle between GSW and I forget which other team. He’s wearing the Kemp jersey because the league forbid him from wearing his #35 Sonics jersey.

[@thoinksnthots9377]

should’ve gotten booed tbh

[@Goboy24.c]

Clown

[@Goboy24.c]

🤡

[@jking3892]

WTF ,, this Dude has ran to another team AGAIN!!! with is ring chasing Azz what a BUM

[@EliasSantiago-rexyander]

SEATLE IS NOT A TEAM NO MORE

[@Fakename70]

Relax. The NBA occasionally holds preseason games in Seattle. This was one of them.