Warriors’ Kevin Durant: ‘The NBA is never going to fulfill me’

Much of the chatter surrounding Warriors forward Kevin Durant’s pending free agency has centered on a couple of questions: What is he searching for? What will make him feel complete?

But after 11-plus NBA seasons, Durant, 30, has come to realize that nothing in his chosen sport is the key to his happiness.

"I don't need anything in this basketball world to fulfill anything in me," Durant told NBC Sports Bay Area in an interview published Friday. "The NBA is never going to fulfill me. It's going to make me feel good about all of the work that I've put in, but I think those days of me wanting to prove something to anybody or walk around with a huge chip on my shoulder is not my thing.