NBA-Durant leaving Thunder to join Curry at Golden State

July 4 (Reuters) - Former NBA Most Valuable Player Kevin Durant, the biggest prize on the free agent market, announced on Monday that will join the Golden State Warriors. Durant, a four-times league scoring champion and seven-times All-Star who spent the first nine years of his career with the Oklahoma City Thunder franchise, joins a Warriors team that won the NBA title in 2015 and finished runner-up in 2016. (Reporting by Andrew Both in Cary, North Carolina; Editing by Frank Pingue)