Rich Kleiman expressed his disagreement with the comments Draymond Green made regarding the exit of Kevin Durant from the Golden State Warriors.
During an interview with UNINTERRUPTED last month, Green said he was upset with Durant about not committing to either staying or leaving the Warriors and referred to the situation as the “elephant in the room”.
“I don’t necessarily agree with the [notion that] ‘He should have let us know’ because nothing is as black and white as that. It’s like you’re damned if you do, damned if you don’t.
He didn’t know at certain times. You go back and forth on how you feel. Everybody does, like, throughout the course of a season. You gonna make a declaration on something when you really don’t know how you’re going to feel, you don’t know anything. Look what happened to him in the Finals. No one knows any of it.
Let’s say Kevin did say that at the beginning of the year — which, again, he didn’t know, but let’s say he did say that. How would that have been easier on anybody? There would have been question after question after question after question. Nothing would have gone away. (The media) had KD damn near signed on the Knicks already, and I was gonna be the GM already, so that was all untrue.
So it’s like, you couldn’t avoid any of it anyway, so I don’t think it had anything to do with that. I think that, listen, people (have) different emotions at different times. Like you said, I have been friends with Draymond for a while now, so it is what it is. Nobody’s losing sleep over it. It’s over,” Kleiman said in a recent interview with The Athletic.
