Kevin Durant Explains Why Arguing With Draymond Green Was The Reason He Left The Warriors

The 2017-2019 Warriors team were one of the most stacked and most complete NBA team in NBA history. They went to three straight NBA Finals from 2017-2019 and won a back-to-back championships in 2017 and 2018.

One of the biggest questions up until now is what if they've stayed together. Will they win the 2021 NBA title?

But after 2019 NBA Finals, Durant choose to leave the Warriors and go to Brooklyn to team up with Kyrie Irving.

One of the reason why Kevin Durant left the Warriors is his in-game argument with Draymond Green. The two had a heated argument during the Warriors-Clippers game in November of 2018.



The two recently had an interview together in Bleacher Report's new episode of ‘Chips'. Green asked about their heated argument and if that led Durant to leave the Warriors.

Draymond: "How much... did our argument... against the Clippers... drive you to leave the Warriors?"

Durant: "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."