Surprisingly on Thursday, Kevin Durant admitted that a spat with Draymond Green in November was a factor that ultimately led him to leave the Golden State Warriors for the Brooklyn Nets in free agency.
Here is video via ESPN on twitter that has snippets of the interview in focus.
"Definitely. For sure. I'm not gonna lie about it."
–Kevin Durant on if his heated exchange with Draymond Green was a factor in his decision to leave the Warriors
(via @firsttake) pic.twitter.com/luuS6Fd22C
— ESPN (@espn) October 31, 2019
First, Durant expresses some regret it sounds like. Still, what happened; happened. And now he’s elsewhere.
“I wish that wouldn’t have happened,” Durant said Thursday. “I feel like that was a situation that definitely could have been avoided. It really came out of nowhere.”
Equally important, Durant says that Green knows he was in the wrong.
“Draymond knew that he was out of line,” Durant said. “As men, we talked about it and everybody around tried to get us to mend it fast because of the season and we wanted to win. But he had his process on how he wanted to handle it and I had my process and eventually we came together.”
While we may or may not get Green’s side of the story, this is further proof that the truth always makes its way out. Now we know one of the reasons that Durant bolted for Brooklyn so quickly even being on a perennial contender.
