CONGRATULATIONS Kevin Durant has been recognized as the Greatest Basketball player of all time, receiving a prestigious award…..

CONGRATULATIONS Kevin Durant has been recognized as the Greatest Basketball player of all time, receiving a prestigious award…..

In March 2015, Kevin Durant gave NBA fans — especially interesting for those of the Oklahoma City Thunder — a rare glimpse into his mindset about the future.

With the 2016 free agency approaching, speculation ran wild over which jersey the scoring superstar would wear next. Yet Durant cut through the noise, telling the press his priority was clear: staying with the Thunder, not just for now, but for the rest of his basketball career.

The NBA has long seen few superstars spend their entire careers with a single team. In recent decades, names like Kobe Bryant, Tim Duncan and Dirk Nowitzki — all Hall of Famers — stand out.

Witnessing that kind of loyalty was “awesome ” for Durant. In fact, the then 26-year-old was so impressed that he was determined to follow suit.

“I’m one of those guys that would love to stick it out with one team my whole career,” he noted, per the Washington Post.

Reflecting on Bryant’s 20-year tenure exclusively with the Los Angeles Lakers, Durant called it “epic.”

If that wasn’t enough to signal his desire to stay with the Thunder — the franchise he joined in 2007 when it was still the Seattle SuperSonics — Durant’s next words left little doubt.

“You never know what the future holds sometimes and how teams may feel about you after a while,” the former second overall pick out of Texas said, “but I love it here, and I would love to get my jersey retired here.”

Durant, who is now with the Houston Rockets, even followed with another heartfelt declaration of loyalty.