{"id":933551,"date":"2019-08-14T17:05:40","date_gmt":"2019-08-14T22:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/?p=933551"},"modified":"2019-08-16T21:53:13","modified_gmt":"2019-08-17T02:53:13","slug":"draymond-green-finally-opens-up-about-kevin-durants-departure-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/draymond-green-finally-opens-up-about-kevin-durants-departure-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Draymond Green finally opens up about Kevin Durant&#8217;s departure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Durant and Draymond Green have had their issues in the past, especially after a matchup with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesportsdaily.com\/los-angeles-clippers-schedule\/\">Clippers<\/a> last season, when the two got into it on the court, for the public to see. It was at that point that NBA fans realized the Warriors locker room wasn&#8217;t as tight as they once thought it was.<\/p>\n<p>But Green didn&#8217;t appear all that upset that Durant left the Warriors for the Nets in free agency, even though he found out when the rest of us did, apparently.<\/p>\n<p>Green appeared on &#8220;The Jump&#8221; on Wednesday, and that&#8217;s when he went public with how he felt about Durant&#8217;s departure for the first time.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Draymond tells me he\u2019s totally fine KD didn\u2019t  talk to him about going to the Nets; \u201cI&#39;m not about to go to Kevin Durant &amp; say, \u2018Hey, Kevin, can I get my fianc\u00e9 pregnant?\u2019\u201d<br \/>\u201cIt\u2019s my life. Am I supposed to come to you and, A, let you know, Or B, ask you for permission? No.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QIyf36EQ2z\">pic.twitter.com\/QIyf36EQ2z<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Rachel Nichols (@Rachel__Nichols) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Rachel__Nichols\/status\/1161769857232379904?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 14, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I found out that he was picking Brooklyn when everybody else found out, which is exactly how it should be,&#8221; Green said. &#8220;He don&#8217;t owe it to me to tell me before he tells everybody else.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He continued:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s my life. Am I supposed to come to you and, A, let you know, Or B, ask you for permission? No.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Interesting, and it makes us wonder if Steph and Klay found out the same way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Durant and Draymond Green have had their issues in the past, especially after a matchup with the Clippers last&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":933554,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[703639074,230171385],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.2 (Yoast SEO v22.2) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Draymond Green finally opens up about Kevin Durant&#039;s departure - The Sports Daily<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/draymond-green-finally-opens-up-about-kevin-durants-departure-video\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Draymond Green finally opens up about Kevin Durant&#8217;s departure\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/draymond-green-finally-opens-up-about-kevin-durants-departure-video\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The Sports Daily\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-08-14T22:05:40+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2019-08-17T02:53:13+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/usatsi_12892421-scaled.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"2560\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1706\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Alan Draper\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@sportsdailytsd\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@sportsdailytsd\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Alan Draper\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"NewsArticle\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/draymond-green-finally-opens-up-about-kevin-durants-departure-video\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/draymond-green-finally-opens-up-about-kevin-durants-departure-video\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Alan Draper\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/#\/schema\/person\/2c8aadde2571800d0de74323730df7b5\"},\"headline\":\"Draymond Green finally opens up about Kevin Durant&#8217;s departure\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-08-14T22:05:40+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2019-08-17T02:53:13+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/draymond-green-finally-opens-up-about-kevin-durants-departure-video\/\"},\"wordCount\":208,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/draymond-green-finally-opens-up-about-kevin-durants-departure-video\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/usatsi_12892421-scaled.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"NBA News and Rumors\",\"Warriors\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"copyrightYear\":\"2019\",\"copyrightHolder\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/#organization\"}},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/draymond-green-finally-opens-up-about-kevin-durants-departure-video\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/draymond-green-finally-opens-up-about-kevin-durants-departure-video\/\",\"name\":\"Draymond Green finally opens up about Kevin Durant's departure - 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