We never got the impression that Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook were best friends during their eight years as teammates in OKC, so they certainly aren’t that now. KD has said that he doesn’t think his relationship with Russ will ever be the same and he’s probably right. Especially since, reportedly, Durant recently told Westbrook that he’d be returning to the Thunder.
Three weeks ago, Kevin Durant’s sitting there at dinner, telling him “Hey, I’m coming back, man. Don’t worry about it.” And now, Russell Westbrook has been kind of thrown into this in having to decide his future a summer earlier than expected.
Kevin Durant, more so than even that, was telling people, “Hey, yeah, I mean I’m coming back.” Like I said in there, a week before Kevin Durant sat down in the Hamptons, he was in Oklahoma City ready to make an offer on a multi-million-dollar house. So, the guy was pretty serious about coming back, and then things turned rather quickly for him to leave. And there’s no doubt that the organization felt a little bit burned by this.
H/T: ESPN
