Jae Crowder and the Boston Celtics did everything they could to try and get Kevin Durant, but they fell just short. He almost said yes as soon as Tom Brady walked into the meeting. Jae Crowder recently told Tom Westerholm of MassLive that there is another reason that Durant should have come to Boston:
“We were the only team in the NBA to beat both (Cleveland and Golden State) on their home court — the only team in the NBA, the Boston Celtics,” Crowder said. “We told him that. We played him clips from both games and told him basically the scouting report of how we guarded Steph (Curry) and Klay (Thompson) — our entire game plan, basically. That’s what made me mad. We (expletive) told him everything we do to beat these guys, and we beat them, and he went and joined them. … I felt like afterward, I was talking to Isaiah, like maybe after you sit back, you shouldn’t have told him everything, but who the (expletive) thought he was going to Golden State, realistically? It was like a slap in the face for us, basically.
“That team is for sure the villain of the league,” Crowder said. “Every other NBA guy, friends of mine, are really disgusted from how the league is turning on that standpoint. Everybody is joining together, everybody wants to go to Golden State or Cleveland.”
Crowder makes a good point by mentioning that Boston beat Cleveland and Golden State on their home courts. Also, Durant would have just helped the Celtics cover Curry and Thompson. I think the Celtics would have been very good with Durant, but no where near as good as the Warriors are now. Now, Durant may have some inside information on how the Celtics plan on stopping the Warriors.
