Dressed in a gray Warriors (@warriors) hoodie, he steered into a hilltop cul-de-sac and pulled into a driveway of his sleek contemporary-style house, where he hopped out, plugged in the Tesla, and headed into the house through a garage where his black labradoodle Ro was resting peacefully.
As his private chef hunched over the stove, preparing a game-day pasta meal, Mr. Durant slumped into the world’s longest sectional sofa and stared out the soaring windows, which were rattling from the wind, toward downtown Oakland in the distance. He chose the house for the view.
“It’s beautiful to be on top of everything, see it from a different perspective,” he said, “because I was at the bottom growing up.”