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Golden State Warriors: Kevin Durant Is Glad The Dubs Lost In The Finals

Published Jun. 30, 2017 6:28 p.m. ET

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Kevin Durant admitted that he’s glad the Golden State Warriors blew a 3-1 lead and lost in the NBA Finals

It’s Monday night, and most of the world is watching Monday Night Football.

Well, Kevin Durant was busy speaking to Ethan Strauss about watching the Golden State Warriors’ collapse against the Cleveland Cavaliers in the NBA Finals, and how it may have been the major key to him signing with the Golden State Warriors this offseason.

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“[My agent] Rich [Kleiman], who’s here, we were watching Game 7,” Durant told reporters at a ceremony in which the Warriors were presented with the ENCORE Award from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. “Well, as it started to unfold, it was, ‘No question, no way could you go to this team.’ And I was just like a kid, like, ‘I’d really like playing with these guys. I’d get wide-open 3s, I could just run up and down the court, get wide-open layups. I was basically begging him. I was like, ‘Yo, this would be nice.’

One has to wonder if the first time KD thought about joining the Warriors really came during Game 7 of the Finals.

With the way the Warriors play, it had to be a thought in the back of his mind throughout the regular season, possibly just the playoffs, but the Warriors losing in the Finals probably made the light bulb in KD’s head come on.

As they lost, it became more and more real every day,” Durant tells Strauss. “You start to think about it even more. To see if I would fit. Then once I sat down with these guys, everything that I wanted to know about them, they kinda showed me. But we don’t have to talk about [what would have happened if the Warriors had won the title], because they didn’t get the job done, and they came after me.

“I guess you could say I’m glad that they lost.”

Honestly, if the Warriors had won, Kevin Durant wouldn’t be in a Warriors uniform. The Warriors would’ve went with the, “if it isn’t broke, don’t fix it” method instead.

There’s that word “if” though, and in the words of Kevin Durant’s fellow teammate, Draymond Green, “But if if was a fifth, we all would be drunk right now.”

The fact of the matter is that yes, the Golden State Warriors blew a 3-1 Finals lead. Yes, Kevin Durant joined them, and guess what? Whether we like it or not, we’re outsiders looking in, so stay gold, Kevin Durant, stay gold.

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