The Warriors players were finished with their media responsibilities for the day and headed out before the news was released, but they knew. You could tell they knew throughout their media sessions — the players walked around the arena as if they’d taken a shot of pure electricity, and there was a different kind of passion in their words.



This didn’t feel like the last desperate days of a long season. It felt more dynamic, more charged than that.



Minutes after the availability was over, Kevin Durant announced, with a picture of himself post-surgery, on his Instagram account that he underwent surgery earlier in the day in New York to repair his ruptured Achilles tendon.



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What’s good everybody I wanted to update you all: I did rupture my Achilles. Surgery was today and it was a success, EASY MONEY My road back starts now! I got my family and my loved ones by my side and we truly...