Kevin Durant show a sense of "Confidence"

Great people can freely talk about anything. Maybe so sentences trash talk that we hear on the pitch. Kevin Durant is surprisingly issued a statement which will probably make the ear of his heat. Last season he seldom played due to a series of injuries suffered. However, it does not necessarily make him lose confidence in her ability.
"With all due respect to the other players, but I think I was the best player in the world," said Durant. With such claims, means forward the Oklahoma City Thunder of the judge that he is better than LeBron James (Cleveland Cavaliers), Stephen Curry (Golden State Warriors) who incidentally MVP last season, James Harden (Houston Rockets), and Anthony Davis (New Orleans Pelicans).
I wonder what the underlying Durant said that. If a basketball player to compete in the league much absent, it will automatically position will be eliminated by others. Suppose, this never happened when in 2010, Chris Paul injury, must be willing to lose the label "best NBA point guard" taken by Deron Williams (while it still reinforces the Utah Jazz).
Perhaps this statement Durant say just to "save" her and bring back awareness to the lovers of basketball that he is still a great player who never won the MVP, and will continue to be a great player. There is nothing wrong, either because LeBron, Curry, and Harden was definitely claiming respectively that they are the greatest compared to the others.
The one player who probably would not say he was the greatest possible Anthony Davis. As the youngest player on the list of candidates for the NBA's best players last season, 22 years old, he would hesitate and try to respect the players more veteran status.