Kevin Durant Rumors: Suns Star 'Never Seems Happy,' NBA Execs Say amid Legacy Talk

Never being satisfied is often a hallmark for high-performing athletes. In the case of Phoenix Suns star Kevin Durant, that may not be a good thing.

During First Take on Monday, ESPN's Stephen A. Smith and Shannon Sharpe discussed Durant's wider legacy after Phoenix's first-round sweep at the hands of the Minnesota Timberwolves.

Smith reflected on how the critical discourse around the 14-time All-Star is "a byproduct of him continuously finding himself in situations where people are looking him and saying he is not happy."

The ESPN personality added he has spoken to NBA executives who say "religiously" is that Durant "never seems happy."

This is one of and perhaps the prevailing narrative with the surefire Hall of Famer.

Durant is a former MVP winner, two-time NBA champion and two-time Finals MVP. He's one of the greatest pure scorers in league history and is easily the second-best talent of his generation behind LeBron James. By almost any metric, he has enjoyed a career most NBA players could only hope to aspire to.

And yet, it has looked from the outside like it has never been enough for KD.

The quest for a title drew Durant to the Golden State Warriors from the Oklahoma City Thunder. When he got that and more in the Bay Area, he eventually became disillusioned in part because he couldn't shake his outsider status within a franchise that already had three identifiable cornerstones. It didn't help that plenty of fans discounted his achievements after he had joined a 73-win team with a squad that had already captured a championship.

Then came the superteam experiment with Kyrie Irving and the Brooklyn Nets. That blew up spectacularly with Brooklyn falling well short of its goal of making the NBA Finals, and few will remember Durant's Nets tenure all that fondly.

His time in Phoenix is shaping up to be the same thing. The Suns don't seem to have a winning formula with the Big Three of KD, Devin Booker and Bradley Beal, and there's little they can do to improve the roster around that trio.

Once again, Durant could find himself attempting to extricate himself from a situation he helped to create. If that happens, it will only add to the chorus of voices wondering whether he can ever be fully contented.