Kevin Durant Received Text from Former President Barack Obama After Finals Win

Stephen Curry held the Larry O'Brien trophy, his wife and kids beside him.

From the Bay all the way to OKC.

Golden State Warriors star guard Stephen Curry said he's still not interested in celebrating the team's National Basketball Association title with a visit to the White House and President Donald Trump. He lost to the LeBron James-led Miami Heat in 2012 as part of the Oklahoma City Thunder. "I'm really proud where I am right now as a player and being as consistent every year as I've been".

"Somebody asked me about it a couple months ago, a hypothetical, if a championship were to happen: 'What would I do?' " Curry said during his exit interview at Golden State's practice facility Wednesday afternoon.

"I can't believe it, but I have to", Durant said recently of where he is after a decade.

Finally tested, one of the few times during a spotless postseason, the Warriors responded like champions, sending a reminder that talent alone didn't thrust them back onto the game's biggest stage, while proving this was a much different bunch from last June.

But Obama did not compliment the Finals MVP on scoring 30-plus points each game.

It moved so quickly from unsourced tweet to reality that House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi even issued an invitation to host the team in Washington, DC, if they did not want to go to the White House. Two nights later, Irving helped the Cavs win their first game of the series, leading all scorers with 40 points on 27 shot attempts.

This time, King James gave way to KD, who was the NBA Finals MVP 10 years after being picked second in the NBA draft behind Greg Oden. He dramatically drove and dunked on Cleveland's defense, knocked down big 3-pointers and blocked shots while handling the load of defending King James. In early February, in response to Under Armor CEO Kevin Plank calling Trump "a real asset for the country", Curry made his feelings known. The Warriors won 129-120 t.

And then there is Kevin Durant.

But if the Cavs' braintrust doesn't believe this team is capable of winning a title, a trade is going to have to be made - and it won't be moving Iman Shumpert, J.R. Smith, or Tristan Thompson that brings the kind of roster shake-up the Cavs would need. "That should be rewarded, and it did get rewarded with a championship". While he keeps himself in impeccable shape and has a near-superhuman ability to stay healthy, no one knows when the presumably inevitable decline will come. They got rid of Harrison Barnes, Andrew Bogut, Festus Ezeli and other minor bench players to bring in Durant. They blamed injuries for their post-All-Star malaise, but their poor defense was more about the players who were playing than those that were missing (Love for a month, J.R. Smith for nearly three). Green fell for it, swinging at James' groin and eventually getting suspended for Game 5.

On Monday, Golden State used a 27-4 second-quarter run to take charge - just after it appeared Durant should have been called for a third foul on a basket by James - and got to celebrate right at home in Oakland surrounded by a deafening home crowd waving yellow rally towels and holding up phones to shoot video and photos as the final minute of the clock ticked away.

Curry was sure to make clear that nothing was written in stone yet, and that the Warriors would talk the scenario over as a team before a final decision is made, but all signs now point to Golden State passing on the opportunity.

Two titles in three years for Golden State.

"I knew it was going to be a battle I just tried to challenge him - you can't stop the guy".