{"id":465085,"date":"2023-10-07T06:44:38","date_gmt":"2023-10-07T10:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=465085"},"modified":"2023-10-07T06:44:38","modified_gmt":"2023-10-07T10:44:38","slug":"kevin-durant-says-pressure-is-on-suns-to-win-the-title","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/kevin-durant-says-pressure-is-on-suns-to-win-the-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Durant says pressure is on Suns to win the title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the wake of the upcoming 2023-24 season in NBA, Kevin Durant stated that nothing short of a title will be looked upon at the Phoenix Suns.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Justin Termine and Eddie Johnson of NBA Today on SiriusXM this week, Durant revealed that his team will be &#8220;pounced on&#8221; if they fail to deliver the coveted trophy.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Kevin Durant on the Suns\u2019 expectations this season:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cObviously if we don\u2019t win the title we\u2019ll get pounced on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SiriusXMNBA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@SiriusXMNBA<\/a>) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4IR9r8enyt\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/4IR9r8enyt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Legion Hoops (@LegionHoops) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LegionHoops\/status\/1710448530396225990?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October 7, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI understand that it\u2019s a part of expectations and the talent level that we have on our team. I don\u2019t even look at it like that. It goes without saying, I always feel like we should be winning every game, and championship is always the goal,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The Suns finished 4th in the Western Conference, crashing out in the 1\/2 final playoffs to the eventual winners the <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/denver-nuggets\/\">Denver Nuggets<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But with Durant&#8217;s first full season in the team, along with the inclusion of high-profile names such as Devin Booker and Bradley Beal the Suns are certainly expected to deliver big.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the wake of the upcoming 2023-24 season in NBA, Kevin Durant stated that nothing short of a title will be looked upon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":465088,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16798,17005],"news_category":[16706],"gn_keywords":[17880,17557],"acf":{"announce":"The Phoenix veteran pointed out that expectations are high","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/465085"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465085"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/465085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":465089,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/465085\/revisions\/465089"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465085"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=465085"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=465085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}