Kevin Durant talks OKC exit, not fitting in with GS, and hating the 'circus of the NBA'

Nets newly acquired star opened up in a featured sit down.

Kevin Durant is a different cat. He marches to the beat of his own drum. So while many will villify him for leaving the Oklahoma City Thunder for the Golden State Warriors, the two-time NBA Champion doesn't have any love lost for the team that drafted him since his exit from the city. 

“I’ll never be attached to that city again because of that,” Durant told the Wall Street Journal. “I eventually wanted to come back to that city and be part of that community and organization, but I don’t trust nobody there. That shit must have been fake, what they was doing. The organization, the GM, I ain’t talked to none of those people, even had a nice exchange with those people, since I left.”

While many criticized Durant's decision to join a team that the Thunder had a 3-1 lead in the Western Conference Finals to before losing three straight games, according to the small forward, things weren't exactly peaches and cream in the Bay Area either. 

“I came in there wanting to be part of a group, wanting to be part of a family, and definitely felt accepted,” he says. “But I’ll never be one of those guys. I didn’t get drafted there.… Steph Curry, obviously drafted there. Andre Iguodala, won the first Finals, first championship. Klay Thompson, drafted there. Draymond Green, drafted there. And the rest of the guys kind of rehabilitated their careers there. So me? Shit, how you going to rehabilitate me? What you going to teach me? How can you alter anything in my basketball life? I got an MVP already. I got scoring titles.”

So while all the success, accolades and admiration followed him to Golden State, Durant still felt like the red-headed stepchild that never fit in. No matter how well he played, he was still on Steph Curry's team. Now with a team to call his own: the Brooklyn Nets, Durant is aiming to write a final triumphant few chapters of his NBA career to cement his legacy among the league's great players. 

While Durant has given the game so much, and the game has honored him with statues and retired numbers, at the end of the day the superstar doesn't like getting wrapped up in the business side of the league and would prefer to stick to basketball 

“Some days I hate the circus of the NBA,” he says. “Some days I hate that the players let the NBA business, the fame that comes with the business, alter their minds about the game. Sometimes I don’t like being around the executives and politics that come with it. I hate that.”