Pathetic babies Durant and Green blame Kerr and management for the break-up of the Warriors.

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Incredibly these two don't want to own what they themselves did in breaking up the Warriors basketball dynasty. It's pitiful. The two shifted the blame completely from themselves, and basketball and sports fans know they are to blame. Many of us saw Green go after Durant on the court as that game was televised.

Kevin Durant and Draymond Green both blamed Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr and team president/general manager Bob Myers for mishandling the fallout from the players' argument that ultimately contributed to Durant leaving the team following the 2018-19 season.

In an interview posted Wednesday on Bleacher Report, Durant and Green both said they believed that Kerr and Myers were at fault for the way they handled the players' emotional back-and-forth on the floor that spilled over into the locker room after an overtime loss to the LA Clippers at Staples Center on Nov. 12, 2018.
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During the first episode of his new series "Chips," Green asked Durant how much that argument played a part in his decision to leave the Warriors.

"It wasn't the argument," Durant told Green. "It was the way that everybody -- Steve Kerr -- acted like it didn't happen. Bob Myers tried to just discipline you [Green] and think that would put the mask over everything."

Green, who was ultimately suspended by the Warriors for the following game for his role in the argument, said he spoke to Warriors management after flying back to the Bay Area following the Clippers game and then again the following morning. He said he had a message for Myers and Warriors management when the group asked him to apologize to Durant.

"'Y'all are about to f--- this up,'" Green said he told them. "I said, 'The only person that can make this right is me and K [Durant]. And there is nothing that y'all can do, and y'all are going to f--- this up.' And in my opinion, they f---ed it up." Responded Durant: "I think so too."

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[RockRaven]

1. I had thought it was Durant whining, Green calling him a bitch, Durant pouting, and

then Durant and Thompson both suffering year-long-rehab type injuries during the postseason -- immediately after which Durant was expecting a fat new contract -- which broke up that lineup.

It's possible my recollection is flawed, I wasn't paying that much attention at the time...

Wouldn't that have meant that the Warriors would have been committing ~1/4 of their payroll to a player who probably won't play the next season... on top of the 1/5 or whatever of their payroll already committed to another player who probably won't play the next season... With no guarantee that either would ever play well again, but in Durant's case would have been a new 4-5 year commitment of ~1/4 of the payroll...?

Very expensive, unknown health, whiney baby man was (still is, in hindsight) very good at basketball, but was also definitely a big gamble. And the other whiney baby man should keep his mouth shut and let people assume he's a jerk instead of opening it to remove any doubt.

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2. Spot on about them both being baby men, one whiney and one a jerk...

and the money was a factor (maybe could've been worked), but IMO the fact remains that Green started the whole, big blow-up with Durant, Durant pouted and eventually took his ball and went home, now they're both trying to blame it on Kerr and the GM.

That's wack.

[ProfessorGAC]

3. In Late, But Totally Agree

I think it's BS, too!
I don't believe a bit of it.