The Warriors are an embodiment of the NBAs twisted ring culture

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2. That's one way of looking at it. Another is that Durant improved upon Lebron's super team-building.

Lebron has done it twice now, first to Miami where he joing D Wade and Chris Bosh, then with the move back to Cleveland he already had Irving on the roster and he subsequently successfully irged management to sign Kevin Love.

How Durant, tiring of Westbrook's ball-dominate play, improved upon Lebron's model is he thought it through, took advantage of a one-time cap bump available to all the teams, and instead of engineering a super team with moves, joined an already existing super team.

Plus he wanted to play in the free-flowing, ball-movement type of basketball that the Warriors play that he knew would never happen with Westbrook who has to dominate the ball 90% of the time despite having the other transcendent, once in a generation (Lebron being the other one) player that is Durant on his team for nine years.

Durant one-upped Lebron pure and simple by his smart move.

Btw, all the teams had the cap bump but the Cavs were not able to go after Durant because they had already given max money to Love and Tristan Thompson.