This was Durant’s immediate response to Yahoo Sports when asked whether he thought the Warriors mishandled his injury.
The 30-year-old and the Warriors were the clear favorites to win the title last season. However, things took a turn when their players started going down with injuries.
With Curry recovering from a foot sprain and playing with a dislocated finger, Cousins playing with a quad injury that had clearly not fully healed yet, Iguodala returning early from a hamstring injury, and Looney playing with a fractured collared bone, reports started to surface that the Warriors were pressuring KD to help the depleted squad.
When he finally returned in Game 5 of the Finals, just a month after he strained his calf, people were concerned that the forward was forced to rush back as the Dubs were down 3-1. Even Perkins, who claims to regularly talk to his ‘brother’, came out and said that the Warriors players and staff pressured the two-time Finals MVP into getting back much earlier than deemed fit.
Rumors further escalated that because of what happened in the Finals, KD was “pissed off” at the Warriors heading into free agency, ultimately choosing to take his talents to Brooklyn.
However, Durant further clarified in his interview:
There you have it. As previous statements by the Warriors have issued, the decision was a collaborative effort and that both the Warriors’ medical staff and KD’s doctors cleared him to play.
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