We’re approaching the one-month mark since Durant chose to leave Westbrook and the Thunder and join Stephen Curry and the Golden State Warriors.
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It feels like forever since Kevin Durant left the Oklahoma City Thunder for the Golden State Warriors, leaving Russell Westbrook to basically be the lone captain of Oklahoma City, while everyone speculates what his next move is.
Russell Westbrook is one of the fiercest competitors in NBA history, and his bulldog-like mentality on the basketball court separates him from almost every player in the league that attempts to get in his way.
On Thursday in Chicago, Durant cleared the air. “I didn’t say that — words about me telling Russell or Nick (Collison) that I would stay or leave never came out of my mouth”. But we came back, and once we came back – it kept his feelings real, it allowed him to make whatever decision he wanted to make. In this day and age, I can’t control anything people claim out there. Never happened. I don’t operate like that.
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“There were never promises given in a meeting before July”, Durant added to The Vertical. If we won it all, I don’t want to say we wouldn’t have gone and recruited Kevin Durant, now, do we get Kevin Durant? For most of his run with OKC, Durant had been the focal point on offense, never averaging less than 20 points per game in nearly a decade with the National Basketball Association. The Durant-Westbrook relationship was highly scrutinized during their years as teammates, and the attention hasn’t waned despite Durant choosing the Warriors in the most shocking free agency defection in recent memory.
