In a casual, diarized conversation on a YouTube segment, Kevin Durant, Draymond Green, and Baron Davis brainstorm a hypothetical million‑dollar one‑on‑one tournament to be held during All‑Star weekend. They debate possible formats—shot‑clock length, point targets, series versus King‑of‑the‑Hill—and settle on a 5‑second shot clock to 11 points with twos and threes counting. The trio then discuss who would pose the toughest competition for Durant, naming Jayson Tatum, Kyrie Irving, Giannis Antetokounmpo, Joel Embiid, and De‑Shawn Watson (Shai) as prime threats, citing personal on‑court experiences. Durant reflects on playing against younger talent, emphasizing respect for the new generation’s work ethic and history, and recounts a memorable moment when Ja Morant handed him the ball, highlighting mentorship and mutual respect. The conversation also touches on potential new league concepts, including a Maverick‑run league and a Saudi league, and celebrates Durant’s recent milestone of 30,000 career points, underscoring his role as a steward of the game.
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Will you play in the league if the league organize a one-on-one tournament for a million-dollar prize winner All-Star weekend?
Would I play?
Yeah.
Yeah, I'll play.
All right.
I'll play.
It'd be some good work too.
I was telling Draymond Green I wanna play too. I'm about to get it set up.
Bro, dude will play ones every day, man. Y'all think he ain't playing ones for a million dollars?
Hey, come on.
I just need to know what type of runs we playing, man.
I say 5 seconds, 3 spots, 2s and 3s, game to 15, first one to 15.
Is it a series though? Is it like a 3 little, 3 little first to 2, you know what I mean? It's a 3 game?
I think it should be King of the Hill.
I say it's point. I say it's 15 points, 15 points.
So King of the Hill is all of us on the court? Nah, nah, I don't like that. It's like 6 of us at a time playing King of the Hill.
Them slim type of ones, man, listen.
Nah, the King of the Hill ones is crazy. I'mma lay up on you.
Nah, I'm loud growling. Next up, I'mma lay up on you.
No, that's not cool because the dude who probably is not the nicest can get rolling and you got one shot at defense. It's like, come on, man. You can't go to 50. Defense is my defense too.
That's too long. That's gonna take forever.
You gotta make it— Go to 10. Go to 10.
If you gonna go ones, you gonna have to go 5-second shot clock to 11, twos and threes.
Done.
I could roll with that.
15 ain't far off though.
15, that's a lot of points.
That's like damn near 21. Yeah, if you don't one-on-one get in the two-on-one.
If you score all threes, it's 5 possessions. And you ain't scoring on threes.
You scoring on threes, man, you be tired as hell, man.
Exactly. In our last episode, we spoke about this, but who will win the one-on-one tournament? I said you, BD said Giannis. When you look around the landscape of the league, who you think your toughest competition would be?
Man, 'cause like BD said, you can get hot on ones, man.
Yeah.
Like you can say, you can say I can win this, but I can also lose too, man. 'Cause like I done played ones with Jason Tatum and he done got cooking, making shots over every contest. I done played ones with Kyrie and he can't miss. You know what I'm saying?
Yeah.
I would say JT, Kyrie, just for the simple fact that I actually played against them. I would say somebody like, Like a Joel too. I think he can get a—
Oh yeah.
He can get a bucket from the wing. I'm talking about just straight up healthy. Man, shit, Shay. I think Shay would be tough. Damn, Shay would be tough in the ones, especially if you going like 5-second clock and not like 3 dribbles, 4 dribbles. If you going to just a shot clock, it gonna be tough. And then Ant. I think I get put there too.
Giannis beating all them dudes.
Giannis, Giannis, Giannis ones, man. I gotta see how he gonna approach the ones, man.
'Cause yeah, he can—
Man, I already know, I already know what he doing.
'Cause the ones, you gotta be able to shoot that. You gotta be able to just shoot anytime like fatal precision. He going straight bully you.
Exactly.
He gonna get as close as he can to the hoop.
For real, for real. You have to foul him the whole time.
Right. I was watching Kareem play Draymond Green. Hey, dog, I was crying. Hey, you can't stop a 7-footer with skills. Draymond Green had a hard time. You, Steph, and LeBron were the US heroes. Has there ever been talk of teaming together for one last road show?
No, sir.
That wouldn't even work. That wouldn't even work.
We ain't had that convo, man. I think you got it. Everything you gonna see with the Lakers Olympics this past summer, man. It was perfect. Steph had a moment. I had me a little moment in that game, bro. I had my— you know what I mean? It was perfect, man.
It was really good.
I had to just lock in on—
Maybe if they call y'all out of retirement and sign all three of y'all.
In that Saudi league. That Saudi league.
Yeah. That's what she was about to say.
Yeah. That might be it. That'd be killing. That'd be killing.
I saw you, or maybe Rich said it, But was talking about Mav's, Maverick's league that he's working on. I think Rich said you'd get some bump, right?
I mean, I just put in so much equity with the league, the NBA, man. It'd be hard to do that, right? You know what I'm saying? Or want to do that or have the desire to just pick up and just start some new shit like that this deep. But you know what I'm saying? The bag is a bag, man.
Especially the hoop. Especially the hoop.
You never know what they could come up with, you know, when it comes 'cause of that, but I don't see it happening for me, man. I mean, I done put in too much work in the league, but the idea, you never know how this gonna work nowadays, man. I'm interested to see if it grow.
And you also spoke about just how you are steward to the game. Number one, congratulations, bro, on 30,000 points.
Thank y'all.
Congrats.
That's a lot of buckets. I still ain't reached 10 yet, but I'm gonna get there one day, maybe. But I saw Ja, gave you that ball, Ja being a young fella and Nike, you know, what was that like just for you to share that moment with, like, Ja gonna, you know, he keep doing what he doing, he gonna be a legend in his own right one day.
Exactly. I mean, it was special. It kind of fell on that day we playing against that team, you know, him and Jaren Jackson and Bane. I got a lot of respect for those young dudes and they always compete hard and show me respect too. And so to play against them and for Ja to hand me the ball, somebody I, you know, been following since he was at Murray State, and we kind of had a little relationship as well as he's coming up in the league. So it was sweet, man. I, you know, I really respect how hard the younger generation plays and how much they respect the game. A lot of people don't say that about the young dudes, but these dudes, they know their history and they actually respect the game. And I appreciate that about them. And they hard workers too, you know what I'm saying? So—
Yeah.
I try to do my part by going out there and staying at that level that I'm at and competing hard against them. And they know it's not no cakewalk when they see me. I think that's a part of being who I am and being an older dude in the league is playing hard against them too. And, you know, and leaving the game, they respect it. You know what I'm saying? They wanna see how you are right now. All that shit you did before is cool, but they wanna—
They don't.
They don't care about that. They wanna see who you are tonight. And, you know, so they keep me on that level of like that standard that I wanna keep myself at. They help with that.
