Kevin Durant’s exit from the Golden State Warriors wasn’t exactly a pretty one. After just three years with the franchise, he left them in the dust back in 2019, weeks after suffering an Achilles tear.
Since his departure, he hasn’t exactly been shy about his reasoning, pointing to multiple different factors as the cause.
Of course, he also famously blamed an altercation with Draymond Green as well, and blamed Warriors GM, Bob Myers, specifically for not handling it correctly.
“It wasn’t the argument, it was the way everybody acted like it didn’t happen. Steve Kerr acted like it didn’t happen. Bob Myers tried to discipline you and think that that would put the mask over everything. I really felt like that was such a big situation for us as a group. The first time we went through something like that. We had to get that shit all out. I remember watching ‘The Last Dance,” and when Scottie didn’t go into the game, the whole team in the locker room said, ‘Scottie that was f****d up that you did that.’ We needed that. We just needed to throw all of that shit out on the table and say, ‘Yo, Dray, K, that was f****d up that we even had to go through that. Let’s just wipe our hands of that and go finish the task.’ I don’t think we did that. We tried to dance around it. I just didn’t like how all of that, just the vibe between all of that, it just made shit weird to me. And I’d rather us, be who we say we are. Family first. Communication is key. Like we didn’t show that. And that’s what rubbed me the wrong way more than anything.”
Draymond Green, who was with KD during that statement, agreed.
“The only person that can make this right is me and K, and there’s nothing y’all can do, and y’all are going to f**k this up. And in my opinion, they f****d it up.”
Apparently, the Warriors front office did not do enough to settle things between the two stars and, in the words of Draymond ‘f—-d it up” completely.
Up til now, nobody on the Warriors really addressed the quotes — but Bob Myers recently broke the silence in a chat on SiriusXM NBA Radio. Here’s what he said in response:
“I haven’t even talked to him about it,” said Myers. “I haven’t. Let’s say I know this guy really well. And let’s say he said something about me to you. My relationship with him is so much beyond that and if it really bothered me I would but I know Draymond — I drafted him, he was like my first draft — I sat with him when he got suspended for the Finals over in Oakland. I didn’t go to the game. I sat with him at the Oakland A’s game. I love that guy. It’s gonna take a lot more than that, and he’s allowed to feel how he feels. And so is Kevin. I’ve been through too much with him.
I’ve watched that guy win three Championships with us. I can’t get upset about that. Him and Kevin, the good that they’ve done for me and this franchise, way outweigh anything like that. And when people feel a certain way about something, they can feel a certain way. And some of the stuff that people say, you don’t know what’s behind it. You don’t know the relationships that live behind that stuff. “
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There’s no going back to change things now, and Myers didn’t show any indication that he even would if he had the chance.
But there does seem to be a relationship between Myers and Draymond that goes beyond our understanding. It explains why Green has remained a Warriors all these years and why he’ll probably retire as one.
So, no matter what happens, the Warriors will always maintain a good relationship with their All-Star. Let’s just hope they still have some more Championship runs in them.
