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Kevin Durant’s wedding bells may never ring.
The 37-year-old NBA star spoke candidly about his relationship history and romantic aspirations on the latest episode of Bobby Althoff’s “Not This Again” podcast. Durant said on the Oct. 30 episode that not only is he “not really looking for anything,” but he also has no plans to get married.
While Althoff claimed that 50 percent of all marriages end in divorce, “I actually think divorce is more realistic…because the rate is much higher,” Durant said. Still, the Houston Rockets forward told the host, “Those are not good odds.”
When Althoff pointed out that Durant often faced worse odds while playing basketball, he retorted, “Yeah, but it’s still like betting on the rest of your money. Forever. … I don’t know if I want to take those odds.”
“It’s the same word I get when I say ‘marriage,’ but it’s more like what that relationship is like,” Durant later clarified. “Do you want to be with this person every day? Would you like to be with the same person every day?”
As for weddings, Durant said he hasn’t seen anything like that on his cards either. “I never dreamed of having a wedding,” the star forward told Althoff. “I’ve never had that when I go to weddings. I’m like, ‘Oh, this is cool. This is crazy. This is cool.'” But, he added, “That’s not what needs to happen in my mind.”
But he’s not closing himself off to anything. At least not completely.
“I’m open-minded,” Durant told the hosts. “I’m sure it could happen. I’m not closing the door or anything – but I’m not expecting it. That’s all I’m saying.
Earlier in the episode, after Althoff asked how he could change his mind about seeking a romantic relationship, the NBA star revealed that he was only looking for the “basics,” minus the labels and “expectations.”
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“Oh, I want someone that I can hang out with every day and talk to. It’s the basics. Someone that I can really be friends with and not look at me like, ‘You’re my girlfriend,’ ‘I’m your boyfriend.'” With that expectation, that title, that cloud that comes with it, we’re just natural friends,” he told the host. “It would be better that way.”
“It’s a little bit better for me not to have expectations, because sometimes I might not want to talk to you, I might not want to see you,” the star added.
Durant previously lived with a romantic partner, but stated in the episode that the relationship between them ended with “obviously, we just kind of went our separate ways and figured ourselves out and remained friends and still needed to build a relationship.”
“But living together is a big commitment,” he added. “It’s crazy how you connect your life to someone every day.”
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The Rockets forward reflected a bit on his past on the Oct. 30 episode, including his childhood with his mother, Wanda. When Starr was still a toddler and her older brother was a toddler, her father abandoned the family, leaving her mother as a single mother at the age of 21.
During his 2014 NBA MVP acceptance speech, Durant called Wanda a “true MVP.”
