According to previous news, the Rockets will play against the Thunder away in the opening game of the new season, and Durant will also witness the old club raise the first championship flag in team history.

NBA commentator Perkins believes on the NBA Today program that Durant will be very embarrassed to see the team he once played raise the first championship flag and celebrate Alexander (Perkins calls him the best player in the history of the Thunder) and he should avoid it.

"Durant is in Oklahoma City, and fans have not applauded his return, and the great KD must walk into that stadium and watch the team he left to raise their first championship flag, and watch their best player (SGA) get the ring. It will be a powdery night. If I were KD, I would go in through the back door. I don't want to see these. If I were KD, I would go with a mindset that I was going to ruin their celebrations and ruin their ring night." Perkins said.

In 2007, Durant was selected by the then Seattle Supersonics (Thunder) and spent the first nine years of his career there, the team he had spent the longest stay in the NBA.

In 2016, Durant's Thunder team was reversed by the Warriors while leading 3-1 in the Western Conference Finals, and a few months later, he joined the Warriors.