Kevin Durant already has a league MVP award, as well as a Finals MVP and NBA Championship on his resume but after his playing days are over, the Washington D.C. product said he's got his target set on team ownership. According to ESPN, Durant is seriously working toward becoming an NBA owner to "add another African-American in the position of majority ownership." Durant stated that he's looking to diversify the color spectrum of NBA majority owners and upper management. He said, "MJ was the first big Nike athlete, the biggest star of his time, but if you don't have the trajectory, that path, that journey, it's going to be hard to do what he did."
Durant went on to say, "But you can still affect the NBA and the game of basketball in a different way. You don't have to be an owner. I think it should be more guys in the positions of power like general managers and scouts and coaches. Anything that involves the day-to-day operations of these franchises. I think more players and more experienced players should be in those positions."
"We're paid for what we can do on the basketball court and most players know these paychecks are not going to come on the first and 15th for the rest of our lives," Durant said. "If we get a big sum of money, why not try to help it grow? That's what entrepreneurs and Fortune-500 CEOs do. They get a crop of money and they try to grow it. They get a product and they try to grow it. We're our own business. Why not try to control that and why not try to leverage that to provide a better life after you're done playing? That's what it's about."
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Source: complex.com
