A recent ESPN report has painted Kevin Durant as untrustworthy. ESPN Thunder insider Royce Young told this week’s listeners of the TrueHoop podcast that the versatile forward met with teammates Nick Collison and Russell Westbrook and assured them he was re-signing with OKC.
Durant decided to clear the air and gave the following statement to The Vertical:
I never told Russell or Nick [Collison], ‘All right, guys, I’m coming back to the Thunder’ – and then a week later, I decide not to. Never happened. I don’t operate like that. I heard people say that story, but it’s not the truth.
While KD may not have come right out and stated that he intended to stay in OKC, he may have left just enough wiggle room to keep his former teammates optimistic.