It requires franchises to look at minority candidates they might otherwise not consider, listen to their pitches and maybe make a choice they might not have made before. Despite the Durant acquisition, this remains Curry’s team even if he looked a tad more mortal this season than the previous two. lahoma City’s Russell Westbrook and Houston’s James Harden for that trophy will be decided before the Thunder-Rockets series starts. “It’s an amazing city with the most open and friendly people you could imagine,” he says.