As the Kevin Durant landscape continues to unfold heading into the NBA trade deadline on Thursday, and the Phoenix Suns continue to gauge the market for the 15-time All-Star and former MVP, the Golden State Warriors aren’t the only team trying to find a way to land the 36-year-old superstar.

So even if it seems impossible, one could be forgiven if thinking an NBA team featuring those three could still be pretty good for an NBA Expendables-style, one-last-job-type title run, even if all of them are going a bit gray in the beard (in LeBron’s case,

Perkins was the big man playing alongside Durant and star guards James Harden and Russell Westbrook with the Thunder, who weer young and newly formed at the time. And, Perkins claimed, according to a Twitter/X post fon NBACentral (via ESPN's Instagram account), that he was the de facto leader of those teams.