Draymond Green did not hold back about discussing Kevin Durant’s final season while discussing ESPN’s The Last Dance documentary with UNINTERRUPTED.
In speaking about the documentary, the Golden State Warriors forward was aksed about how Durant handled his looming free agency.
“I think Phil did what was great, which is acknowledge the elephant in the room,” Green said to hosts Maverick Carter and Paul Rivera. “Because all year, if Phil doesn’t do that, all year everyone else is dealing with that somewhere. And whether it’s coming in questions, so now once you get these questions from the media, we’ve already addressed that as a team. We really don’t need to talk about that. And our season was a little different from the standpoint of it was contracts, but it was on players. It wasn’t necessarily the organization.”
“Kevin took the one-year deal on his own. So that was kind of the elephant in the room,” he added. “And although Steve’s approach was like, ‘Hey, guys, let’s approach this year because we don’t know what next year brings,’ you’ve got Kevin’s contract, you’ve got [Klay Thompson]’s contract, and I kind of got thrown in that contract thing, although I had another year after that year, which was this year. And so that was kind of the elephant in the room, and although Steve would kind of hit on it, [saying] ‘Let’s just enjoy this year for what it is because we don’t know what next year holds,’ it didn’t necessarily carry the same weight because what should have happened was Kevin come out and say, ‘Hey, man, this is it, so let’s do this,’ or, ‘This isn’t it.'”
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Green and Durant got into a very public verbal altercation after Durant snapped at him for not getting him the ball for a game-winning shot. Green fired back at Durant, cursing him out and saying that Durant was going to leave the Warriors in free agency in the summer, which is exactly what he did.
The Warriors suspended Green for one game, and an awkwardness lingered over the team for the remainder of that season.
