(Photo by Ezra Shaw/Getty Images)

Kevin Durant celebrates after being named Bill Russell NBA Finals Most Valuable Player on June 12, 2017. (Photo by Ezra Shaw/Getty Images)

Kevin Durant not only brought home an NBA Championship title for folks in Oakland, he also showed love to his D.C. area fans after Monday’s game.

A native of Seat Pleasant in Prince George’s County, the small forward thanked “everybody” in the town, Prince George’s, D.C., Maryland, and Virginia. “Y’all been riding with me and it feels good to see it come full circle,” he told reporters from Oracle Arena where the Golden State Warriors beat the Cleveland Cavaliers 129-120 in game 5 of the NBA Finals.

But whether his hometown gratitude makes up for him not signing to the Washington Wizards is up for debate.

Durant has said that his decision not to play for the D.C. team had nothing to do with the fans or the city. “I’m trying to build a second part of my life as a man living in a different part of the country, just trying to do different things,” he told The Washington Post earlier this year. “I did everything I was supposed to do in the D.C.-Maryland-Virginia area, I felt. Now it’s time to do something new.”

Durant’s first NBA championship win also came with the title of Finals MVP.

The Warriors said in a statement that they’ve yet to receive the customary invitation to the White House for their big win, and they will make those decisions “when and if necessary.”

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