Kevin Durant left out of super team the world wants to see

It's no secret that Kevin Durant has a reputation for playing on what fans would call "super teams". Even going back to his stint with the Oklahoma City Thunder - the team that drafted him while still in Seattle as the Supersonics - Durant has shared the court with some all-time greats.

Whether it was Russell Westbrook and James Harden (or should that be Serge Ibaka?) to begin with, or else Stephen Curry, Draymond Green and Klay Thompson (were he won two rings), Durant has played with the best of the best. The list goes on, with a reunion with Harden and also Kyrie Irving with the Brooklyn Nets, before settling with Devin Booker and later Bradley Beal on the Phoenix Suns.

There is one dream super team scenario that the world is talking about right now though, and Durant doesn't feature.

Despite having more Olympic gold medals than any men's basketball player ever - and even with the heroics of Booker in Paris - the news cycle has been dominated by LeBron James and Stephen Curry. The former because he's possibly the best to ever do it, and that was his last Olympic Games. And the latter, well... you know why.

With the NBA's offseason now entering its quietest period after the schedule is released - we did also get the Emirates NBA Cup pool drop recently - the talking heads have gone back to the well one more time to talk LeBron and Curry. Specifically, how cool it would be to see the two of them play together across an entire NBA season.

There was some talk about the Golden State Warriors actually trying to trade for James not so long ago, and in theory both could become unrestricted free agents and join the same team in 2026. We know better than to bet against James, but the prospect of him still being in the league at that point seems outlandish, even for him.

Anyway, what the hell does any of this have to do with Kevin Durant? Nothing, and that's the point. Despite teaming up with Curry to win championships in the past and play a brand of dominant basketball never seen before, nobody seems interested in the two of them running it back. Durant had his chance to reach immortality in The Bay, and he blew it.

As for the prospect of James and Durant playing together? For whatever reason - most likely because Durant was in the shadow of James during his Miami Heat days - that has never excited fans in the same way Curry and James does. Then again, no other player in the history of the league can do what Curry does either.

With James and Durant both being deemed as "forwards", there's some overlap that doesn't exist if you substitute Curry in there instead. Besides, Durant and James are friends these days - and as hard as it might be for Durant to accept - he didn't define this generation of basketball in the same way the other two did. Your favorite player's favorite player maybe, but that's it.

So while we wait for preseason action to get underway - even that feels a long time from happening - let's allow the talking heads to fill airspace with this chatter. If things somehow ever got real though make no mistake, Durant would not be teaming up with Curry and LeBron to close out their careers in the league.