Kevin Durant refuted the accuracy of a piece published by ESPN’s Zach Lowe this week, which states that Draymond Green called Durant from the parking lot after the Warriors’ crushing Game 7 loss last year.
“That’s false,” Durant told reporters Sunday afternoon. “A hundred percent false.”
It’s known Durant was courted by Warriors players — the most active of the group being Draymond Green — throughout the 2015-16 season, specifically towards the end of the campaign.
As the Zach Lowe piece goes, Green continued recruiting Durant immediately following the team’s Game 7 loss in the Finals:
Green was already working on that as he left Oracle Arena after that gutting Game 7 loss. Green sat in his car in the parking lot and called Myers, telling him he had to sign Durant. “It’s on you,” Green told Myers.
Green hung up, stayed in the parking lot, and made another call — to Durant. “That was my very next call,” Green said. Two weeks later, Durant signed a maximum contract that put him in a Golden State uniform for at least one season, with several more seasons likely to come.
Regardless of whether Durant or Green are telling the truth, the Warriors wound up coming out of the Durant free-agent sweepstakes victorious on July 4th.
