"I wasn't around the team to really, really see the vibe," Durant said.
The second half of the Thursday loss to the Washington Wizards marked the first time Durant sat on the bench with the team since his injury. Durant hasn't been with the team over the past few weeks as he continues his rehab from a sprained MCL suffered on Jan. Me as a friend, I just have to accept it."ĭurant said he didn't know Harden was unhappy with the Nets until reports surfaced over the past week that Harden wanted to leave Brooklyn. I'm sure you make those choices and decisions on your own as an individual. I didn't have any conversations with James up until then. I'm sure people make their decision before they get to that mode of being unhappy. "So no matter what I say or try to convince someone - I'm not saying I did this, but this is just my theory on this - no matter what I say or do to try to convince someone to change their mood from being unhappy to happy, I think that's when I'm pretty late to the party. "I think once a person gets to that decision of 'I'm unhappy,' I think he's gone through a lot of steps to get there," Durant said.
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Harden said as recently as a week and a half ago that he still thought the Nets could win a title this season if their roster was at full strength, but his tune clearly changed in recent days as he pushed for a deal to be reunited with Daryl Morey, his former general manager with the Houston Rockets and now president of basketball operations with the Sixers.įor his part, Durant wouldn't commit to the theory that he tried to get Harden to stay, adding that nothing he could have said would have swayed Harden's decision anyway. But from around our team and around our group, there's noise about what may happen. "I'm just glad that we got this thing done and now we're able to move forward and get some of this noise away, and I'm sure he would feel the same way. He doesn't owe anybody an explanation, and I wasn't looking for one. He makes his decisions on his career by himself. "James doesn't have to explain anything to anybody," Durant said before the game Saturday against the Miami Heat. Harden was the centerpiece of a blockbuster trade to the Philadelphia 76ers on Thursday that sent Ben Simmons, Seth Curry, Andre Drummond and two future first-round picks to the Nets. MIAMI - Brooklyn Nets star Kevin Durant says he doesn't feel that former teammate James Harden owes him an explanation for wanting to leave the organization.
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