NBA 2021 The ex-comrades in Golden State clarify the various controversies they lived through
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Unot one of the best teams in NBA history is that of Curry, Thompson, Green and Durant Warriors, who shared three seasons on the court between 16/17 and 18/19. On team they eat after Draymond’s call to KD and who ‘finished’ when they fought in a match at the beginning of last season against the Clippers.
Much has been said about these interactions, but never a direct exchange of the protagonists until Draymond appeared on the podcast The ETC. which features the now Nets player, where they claim the two stories were taken out of promotion.
“You know everything is affection. That they create what they want to believe, that’s what I tell them their shit. See what they want, listen to what they want. read whatever they want from things they will never know. That’s the way it is, “Green concluded after more than an hour of talking about modern basketball, criticizing the analysis and what was said about the game of these Warriors, as well as talking about ‘these polemics.
For starters, Draymond denies that he has spoken to KD crying to beg him to come to Golden State after losing the 1-3 lead in the 2016 Finals to the Cavs.
“We are sending some messages, just saying ‘I saw what happened. Dress up what happened‘. And that was all. There was no urgent FaceTime. It was that you saw what happened and we will wait, “Durant said.
“They say he yelled at Kevin crying from the parking lot. They’re doing a shitty drama like making a movie. Things made for television. People start talking and talking. I’m not going to fight with everyone. At the end of the day, whatever Kevin came up with, if that (the drama) helps them … “, Green adds.
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Many point to the November 12, 2018 game against the Clippers as the moment Durant decided not to return to Golden State, after Green didn’t give him the ball in the final seconds of the game and insulted the bench. As they remembered:
Green – “Tom bounces and Advances the ball. Kevin asks me for the ball, though my whole plan was to go in the middle and step back, l shot and we go home because we have a game the next day, against the Hawks. So does Imaging, though when he turned to give the pass, Kevin was not back, he stopped, and when I look for it in the past, the baln hits me in the foot when I look for it and everything goes wrong “.
During – In my mind, look at it this way: we stopped, grabbed the rebound and ran to the other side to throw the triple. Oh that’s where there was a disconnect, that was the problem. I wanted that moment, Dray saw it differently and that was all the shock. He doesn’t run because he thinks he was upset about not having the damn ball. Then Shai put her hand up because she saw I wasn’t running. “
Green – “We go out, I lose the ball and Kevin yells at me ‘give me the damn baln’. And I answer him, ‘I was going to give you the damn baln if you had run.’ We go to the bench, sit in a couple of seats to his right and hit a chair saying ‘I said give me the damn baln’. And ah said, ‘look cabrn, I do this too, it will give you the baln if you weren’t crying’. I do that too. We tell each other things, DeMarcus separates me and asks me to shut up. For m it was shit because no one says anything to K, and if he runs the track he was going to give it to him. In my opinion, ah, they all made this bigger. For me it was nothing because all this stage, the only person talking to me with insults was Kevin, the nic. We had a bad discussion, but he insulted me every now and then. Now, looking back, media coverage, suspension … made it all the worse. When we got back from Los Angeles, Bob and Steve talked to me for 1 hour and 45 minutes. I said ah: What the hell are they talking about? They say CRUC the line, these are things I shouldn’t have said. And if they think it’s that bad, there’s nothing they can say or do, the nic that can fix if that’s so bad, it’s me. See you the next morning. I told them to get out of the way, I’m going to talk to K, apologize. Nobody wanted to hear me and everything is even more proportionate. Then I miss the next 10 games for a toe injury and they don’t see us play for 11 games, the thing keeps going up, it has one more life and if they had listened and let me talk to K, everything will be different .
During “It bothered me, s there are things you told me, but there are people who have told me things before, but you don’t really believe it, it’s the heat of the moment. It went a little further, we’ll talk next week, we’ll see what really happens. I was so irritated because I knew they were going to use this to try to separate me from the group, Talking about the contract, this and that, and I didn’t want them to sabotage it. I’ve seen it before. My focus was the three-time championship. And it was all about what happened to the Clippers. The following week in Dallas, with Klay, we talked and saw that we didn’t normally talk to each other. It’s part of our story, but our sms is bigger than that. Then watch Steve say he enjoys training more the following year. It can’t be that you don’t want to fight with two personalities about losing by 20 points every week. “
Green: “I’m telling you something … I play on this next team and don’t tell me anymore.”
The last game Durant played before injuring himself in February was against the Warriors, the first time he had midi at Green after leaving Golden State, and KD admits it’s a bigger challenge for all they know.
“It ‘s more competitive. Playing in February, you defended a shot like no one else can. You saw him coming, the east. It’s familiarity, after seeing it so much. I wrote them down to others, and we had fun. It’s all in your mind, with an appeal. “
Green shares the sentiment, saying it’s a chess game like no other. “We did it before, but now it’s different because we went to the top together, we share something that few people share and that unites you naturally. The competition changes. That also makes you see that tambin I understand what exactly you want to do; stop it is a different story, but you know so much … It makes the competition more fun because, as important as having Kevin’s skill or what I bring in is a game of chess because you know that if I do that, it can upset you, but he knows that if they do that otherwise, you can affect us. It’s more fun to face K, or Andre (Iguodala). It’s fun, trying to win this chess. ”