Kevin Durant won NBA Finals MVP and his first championship ring with the Golden State Warriors last season, but he initially had remorse about leaving Oklahoma City.
Before he met with his Warriors teammates, Durant recalled feeling alone and feeling like he had made a mistake according to a recent profile in San Francisco Magazine.
Durant told his agent, Rich Kleiman, that he was "f****d up" for a while emotionally because he was in between two teams.
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Here's an excerpt from the story:
"You were f—- up in China," Kleiman, looking up from his phone, offers from his plane seat across the aisle from Durant and me.
"That was before I met anybody from the Warriors and dove into the culture. I was basically on my own," Durant says.
"It was like you were in between two teams."
"I'm telling you, I was f—- up for a while!"
"We were all messed up on jet lag," Kleiman says, turning to me, "and I was up at 6 a.m. and he calls me and says, 'Yo, are you up?' And I'm like, 'Yeah, what's up?' And he's like [yelling], 'Why the f— did you let me do this to my life?' And I'm like, 'Ohh s—, I'm coming over to your room.'"
"That hotel was rock bottom," says Durant.
Durant was in the news recently for responding to someone on Twitter and calling out his former organization and teammates. It appeared as if he meant to send the tweets from a different account defending himself, but he forgot to change accounts.
Things have worked out well for Durant on the court since joining the Warriors, but it still seems as if he has some issues with fans not liking him for leaving Oklahoma City. The Twitter snafu was a bad look for him, but it will probably be forgotten once the Warriors win another title next season.
(h/t The Big Lead)
