Itās not a secret that Draymond Green and Kevin Durant had an impasseduring their time together in the Golden State Warriors. For some, that put the last nail of the coffin on one of the NBAās most feared dynasties.
Durant and Green both have strong characters and personalities. They donāt like to be told what to do and are born leaders, so maybe thatās why they didnāt seem to get along from time to time.
And now that theyāve made amends and even won the gold medal together in the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, the Brooklyn Nets startook his time to explain just what makes Green such a strong and unique leader.
Kevin Durant Explains Why Draymond Green Is Such A Unique Leader
āAll of us naturally are underdogs, got chips on our shoulders, because itās hard to make it to this point,ā Durant said, as quoted by NBC Sports. āBut the person that went too far was always Draymond Green, to the point where I felt like you were trying to establish that youāre not playing around. Like, youāre not going to walk over me, even though I was a second-round pick and Iām undersized and Iām not as skilled as yāall want me to be or I donāt play the way yāall traditionally like for people my size to play.ā
āBut you pushed it to a limit where itās like itās cool for me to be who I am and not apologize for it all the time because you donāt mean no harm to anybody, but sāt that you wanted done, you wanted done. And we all respected that. And we all kind of looked up to that as guys who come into the league and want to fit into this system so bad, wanting to be a part of this whole thing, then you realize you see dudes who [are] just going by their own little pace, and itās like, thatās more so my rhythm,ā Durant concluded.
Itās sad to think that the Golden State Warriors still had a lot left in the tank and that they couldāve won even more had they stayed together. But thatās just the way things go in the business.
