NBA veteran Kevin Durant admits he doesn’t expect to ever get married after doubting whether he could be with one partner for the rest of his life.
Durant, 37, was previously engaged to ex-WNBA player Monica Wright after popping the question to his then-girlfriend back in 2013, only to call it off a year later because he ‘didn’t know how to love her the right way.’
Over a decade on, the Houston Rockets forward is single despite being romantically linked to a number of high-profile women since his split from Wright, including women’s basketball star Liz Cambage and actress Apryl Jones.
And during an interview with influencer Bobbi Althoff, Durant said he ‘doesn’t know’ if he could remain with just one person in marriage forever.
He said: ‘I think divorce is actually more realistic, cause the divorce percentage is higher, right?’
When Althoff claimed the chances of a divorce are always 50/50, Durant added: ‘That’s not good odds to me. That’s banking on forever though and you’re banking on that being 50/50? I don’t know if I want to take those odds.’
Kevin Durant admits he doesn’t expect to get married 11 years after calling off an engagement
The NBA veteran says he doesn’t think he could remain with one partner for the rest of his life
‘It’s like the word marriage… like what the relationship is,’ he continued. ‘Like do I want to be with this somebody every day and hang with the same person every day?
‘I have never really dreamt of having a wedding day. When I go to a wedding, it’s like “oh this is cool, oh it’s dope.” It’s not like it needs to happen in my mind. But it is still a cool event.’
Durant, who conceded that he thought he was close to marriage before, stressed that he is not in the market for a serious relationship right now.
However, he is not completely closing the door to wedding bells in the future.
‘I’m sure that it may happen,’ the two-time NBA champion said. ‘I’m not closing the door on nothing, but I’m not expecting it is all I’m saying.’
When quizzed on what he would look for in a partner, Durant explained: ‘Just somebody I can hang out with everyday, somebody I can talk to that’s cool, you know the basics, somebody I can really be friends with. And not look at it as if [it’s girlfriend-boyfriend].
‘That expectation that title, it’s that cloud that comes with that instead of us just being natural friends. No expectations is better for me because sometimes I might not want to talk to you or see you.’
