Kevin Durant joked Wednesday that he's playing on an "old head" squad alongside LeBron James, Stephen Curry (now sidelined) and Kawhi Leonard at the 2026 NBA All-Star Game -- but the 37-year-old downplayed concerns about how hard his team, the USA Stripes, will play. "You should ask the Europeans and the World team if they're going to compete," the Houston Rockets star said, laughing. "If you look at Luka Doncic and Nikola Jokic now, let's go back and look at what they do in the All-Star Game. Is that competition? So, we haven't questioned what they've been doing. But we're going to question the old heads, and the Americans. "But these two dudes out there, Luka and Jokic, they don't care about the game at all. These dudes be laying on the floor. They're shooting from half court. But you've got to worry about the old heads playing hard? I can read between the lines, bro. It's just an overall topic that everybody's been talking about."
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