"Hopefully I get that chance. I've got to stay on top of my game. I keep saying that. I want to earn my spot on the team. Got to stay on top of my game and hopefully I'm out there with Coach Spo and his staff."
"I've always been impressed with Coach Spo from afar, but to be in the same locker room with him, to see his intensity, his scouts just made me want to run through a wall," Durant said. "He was so enthused about being an assistant coach on Team USA and he understood that we wanted to make a statement out there as a team and he backed us."
Durant said one of the big takeaways from his time with Spoelstra in Paris was how someone who is a head coach -- an NBA champion head coach, at that -- [could] serve as an assistant. As part of Golden State coach Steve Kerr's staff in Paris, Spoelstra was on the floor after practices and before games to work with players individually, throwing passes in warmups, even rebounding for them.
"Just doing the dirty work. Spo was great at that," Durant said. "He made it exciting to come into work every day."
