The Houston Rockets couldn’t imagine they would be without Fred VanVleet this season. They were ready to go for it all, with VanVleet acting as the prominent voice on the court and in the locker room. But with his season-ending injury, players have to shuffle. Naturally, Kevin Durant, being the senior-most player, would command the respect of the locker room.

But he isn’t the traditional leader. When Charles Barkley said Durant doesn’t drive the bus, it isn’t entirely true. He just doesn’t expect the team to rely on one man. “If we’re going driving across the country, I’m not driving that motherfucker by myself. I’m going to need five or six in this car and we’re going to switch this shift, and we going to get there. That’s how I ride,” he said on Netflix’s Starting 5 .

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