Kevin Durant Draymond Green is responsible for the former’s decision to leave the team Golden State Warriors Standing firmly at the feet of head coach Steve Kerr and general manager Bob Myers, they thought they were mishandled in the locker room dispute between the players.
Durant two consecutive victories NBA Won the championship in three seasons with the Warriors, and then left as a free agent in the summer of 2019 to sign with the Brooklyn Nets.
In the first episode of the new series “Chips” aired by Bleacher Report, both Green and Durant stated that this decision originated from An incident that happened after losing to the Los Angeles Clippers in overtime in November 2018.
“This is not an argument,” Durant told Green. “It’s everyone-Steve Kerr-acting as if it didn’t happen.
“Bob Myers tried to disciplinary action against you, thinking it would make the mask cover everything.”
After the incident, the Golden State Warriors suspended Green in the following game and asked him to apologize to Durant. Green’s request fell through like a shot put. Green warned the Warriors that they risked destroying the team’s subtle chemical reaction.
“I said,’The only people who can do it right are me and K [Durant]There is nothing you can do, and you will all mess it up.
“In my opinion, they messed up.”
With 4 seconds left in the fourth quarter of the game against the Clippers, Green beat Durant to grab a defensive rebound in order to keep the ball in a tie, and ignored his request for receiving the ball.
Green dribbled the ball on the court, ignoring Andre Iguodala and Klay Thompson, who opened wide on his sides and then lost balance and possession because the opportunity was begging.
As the team returned to the bench before overtime, Durant and his teammates exchanged opinions. As the discussion became more intense, Thompson, who was sitting between the two, acted as a mediator.
The argument continues into the locker room, where According to reports, Green dared Durant to win the championship with a team other than the Warriors..
However, the two seemed to overcome the incident relatively quickly, but for the rest of the season, the quarrel shrouded like a dark cloud over the Warriors, and the players and the coaching staff repeatedly asked about its lingering influence.
Durant tore his Achilles tendon in Game 5 of the 2019 NBA Finals, When he returned after a month of suspension after the Warriors fell 3-1 for a month in a row. His brief appearance on the court eventually proved to be his last game in a Golden State jersey because he signed with the Nets a few months later and missed the entire 2019-20 season to recover from injuries.
When talking to Green, Durant admitted that his influence in the Warriors’ final season was similar to the dissolution of the Chicago Bulls, which was caused by ESPN’s 10-part documentary the last Dance last year.
“I remember watching the last DanceDon Scotty [Pippen] Without entering the game, the entire team in the locker room said:’Scotty, you are so fucking happy to do this’,” he said.
“We need that. We just need to throw all the s*** on the table and say,’Yo, Dray, K, that’s so bad, we even had to go through that.’
“Let’s dry our hands, and then go to complete the task. […] I don’t think we did this. We just tried to dance around it. I just don’t like it, I just don’t like the atmosphere in between. “
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