When Kevin Durant was asked to pick his favorite memory of these Games, the answer came without hesitation.
”Seeing Simone,” he said with a smile.
Much like LeBron or KD or Steph, legendary American gymnast Simone Biles is one of the few athletes here whose Q rating is so astronomical that no last name is needed. So on Aug. 1, one night after the men’s basketball team beat South Sudan in pool play and two nights before the Americans would rout Puerto Rico, a group that included Durant, Curry, Devin Booker, Jrue Holiday and Tyrese Haliburton went to watch Biles in action.
She won her sixth gold medal that night, winning the all-around event while fellow American Suni Lee took bronze.
“I’d never been to a gymnastic event up close like that,” said Durant, the Phoenix Suns star and three-time gold medalist who is hoping to become the program’s first ever to win a fourth. “Obviously I’d watched (gymnastics) on TV, but it’s different when you’re there. And just to see her greatness, along with the other girls who put so much time into their craft, it’s just amazing to see how great they’ve become.”
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