A man is allowed to change his mind.
What you would have hoped is if KD knew he wasn’t sure, that he would have just told Westbrook that. ESPN’s Royce Young reports that KD told Westbrook he had nothing to worry about and as we know now Westbrook should have been worried.
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.”
It is possible KD really thought he was coming back and something changed or he always knew in the back of his mind he was going to leave and just didn’t have the heart to tell Westbrook at the time.
Whatever the case, it is Westbrook’s team now until he decides what he wants to do long-term.