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Marvel fans are going crazy with the release of the new movie ?Doctor Strange In The Multiverse of Madness?. Recently, Cumberbatch and Elizabeth Olsen attended the world premiere of the movie in Los Angeles.?

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Now the fans are sharing their initial reactions to the movie all over social media.?

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The Marvel universe has a lot of superheroes with unique powers. But do you know there was a time when mystical powers were given to Stephen Curry and Kevin Durant??

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During the release of the first Doctor Strange movie in 2016, ESPN and Marvel worked together on something different. They collaborated on giving mystic powers to some superstars in the NBA.?

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LeBron James, Kawhi Leonard, Russell Westbrook, Stephen Curry, and Kevin Durant were selected. It was reported that ESPN and Marvel wanted to give the players superpowers based on their on-court abilities.?

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They portrayed Stephen Curry as a superhero with insane accuracy, owing to his shooting accuracy. And they gave Kevin Durant the power of multiplying himself since he is good at a lot of different things.

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Stephen Curry and Kevin Durant

While these NBA superstars in reality don?t have any mystic powers, they can still perform superhuman things on the basketball court.

When Kevin Durant joined Stephen Curry and the Golden State Warriors, they displayed their superpowers winning back-to-back titles.?

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In the 2015-16 season, the Warriors lost the finals against LeBron James and the Cavaliers. After initially going up 3-1, the Warriors lost the next 3 games.?Kevin Durant and the Thunder lost to the Warriors in the 2015-16 playoffs. Ironically, the OKC Thunder also slipped up a 3-1 lead to lose the series.

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Then Durant signed with the Golden State Warriors in the next season. And the superstars Durant and Curry joined forces. The Warriors reached the finals in 2016-17 with a rematch against the Cavaliers.

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In the 2016-17 playoffs, Kevin Durant averaged 28.5 points, 7.9 rebounds, and 4.3 assists. He helped them win the finals. He was also named the finals MVP. Curry averaged 28.1 points, 6.2 rebounds, and 6.7 assists.

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It was again the Warriors vs. the Cavaliers in the 2017-18 season. Kevin averaged 29 points, 7.8 rebounds, and 4.7 assists. Curry averaged 25.5 points, 6.1 rebounds, and 5.4 assists. And the Warriors swept the Cavaliers. KD was again named the finals MVP.

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While the Warriors again made the finals the next year for a three-peat, they were beaten by the Toronto Raptors. Then Durant left the Warriors to join the Nets.

Do you think Kevin Durant should team up with Stephen Curry again?

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Bagavathi Eswaran

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Bagavathi Eswaran is a senior NBA writer at EssentiallySports, having a strong passion for the sport since the age of ten. As a former college player, Bagavathi has been following the NBA for more than a decade and has found his calling in writing about the sport. He has used his expertise in covering the NBA, as well as other arenas of the sport, to write more than 1400 articles at ES. Bagavathi's pieces on the increasingly dominant presence of European basketball and those following the journey of women-ballers are particularly noteworthy. Along with being a full-time writer, he is also a part of a group of young coaches groomed as trainers by Junior NBA. Bagavathi has trained players from schools and colleges, as well as underprivileged students who can attend the camps for free.

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