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As Kevin Durant embarks on his 18th year in the league, everyone knows his game well by now.

The question is whether the Phoenix Suns and coach Mike Budenholzer can maximize what he does best, tweak a few areas that would make him even more dangerous, and generally make his life easier now that they’ve added some point guards.

Over the last three days of the week, we’ll be wrapping up our Suns season preview series that’s gone through all 17 players on the roster, one-by-one.

That includes both a written piece for the avid readers (hello there!) and a video breakdown for the visual learners.

On Day 15, we begin our breakdowns on the Big 3, starting with the Suns’ best player from last year, Kevin Durant.

It sounds crazy to say this about a guy who just put up a 27-7-5 stat line on 52-41-86 shooting splits, but the Suns might be able to get even more out of a 36-year-old Kevin Durant this year.

Durant is playing at levels we haven’t seen from any player in NBA history at this stage of their careers outside of LeBron James, and during exit interviews, that prompted a pretty interesting quote from general manager James Jones.

“That’s a constant focus for us is to continue to figure out how to maximize Kevin Durant,” Jones said. “No one’s done it yet.

I believe we’ll be the first team to do it, because we can maximize him, we can maximize our entire roster, we’re a better team.”

The Golden State Warriors might have something to say about that bold proclamation, but there’s little doubt that the Suns feel they can optimize him better than last year.

The Athletic reported that Durant was unhappy with his role last year under Frank Vogel, feeling he was relegated to the corner too often.

Durant shot down that report, but either way, Phoenix will be hoping to unleash him in Mike Budenholzer’s offense.