A few weeks ago during the heart of free agency ESPN reporter, Royce Young, made the claim that Kevin Durant met with Russell Westbrook and Nick Collison and assured them that he was coming back to the Thunder.
On the podcast I said, “Three weeks ago, Kevin Durant’s sitting there at dinner, telling [Westbrook], ‘Hey I’m coming back, man. Don’t worry about it.’ And now Russell Westbrook’s kinda been thrown into this in having to decide his future a summer earlier than expected.”
Young is now clarifying what he meant when he made these statements according to an editorial he wrote on ESPN.com. Young says that he never intended to make anyone think this was exactly what Durant told Westbrook and Collison. Rather, he simply wanted to convey how all parties felt after the meeting was over.
It’s easy to see how the confusion was made, but as we now know, nothing like this ever came from from KD’s mouth.