Draymond Green Explains Why Kevin Durant Leaving Warriors for Nets Was a 'Mistake'

Kevin Durant won two titles with the Golden State Warriors before he joined the Brooklyn Nets.

Injuries and other factors have led to the Nets only winning one playoff series in the past two years, and that hasn't been good for the team's reputation.

There will be some NBA fans out there that think that the decision by KD to leave the Warriors was not the right one. Draymond Green said on the Colin Cowherd Show that it was a mistake to leave the Golden State Warriors.

"Basketball is 100 percent the most important thing in Kevin's life. It is the thing that he cares about himself more than anything in the world. And when Kevin was here, the reason I thought Kevin was making a mistake, because I felt like when Kevin was here, what he was allowed to do was to simply just go play basketball, which is what Kevin loves to do."

"And so it wasn’t that he was going to play with Kyrie. It wasn't that everyone's, 'Oh, Kyrie isn't there.' It wasn't any of that. Or it wasn't, 'Oh man, you're winning championships.' It was more so, from me, from a life standpoint, because again, I care about the person. I don't give a damn about the basketball player. He's a great basketball player. I just care about the person. And I just knew what makes him happy in his life is being able to simply go play basketball. And so that's where the mistake was made for me."

That may seem true from Green's point of view. It's fair to ask if he was able to focus on basketball during his time with the Warriors.

In public, he said he didn't fit in with the rest of the Warriors. He said that his teammates and coaches pressed him for answers on his future because he was tired of the huge media circus that stuck close to the team.

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This is the full 2:50 of Kevin Durant addressing why he hasn't been talking to the media lately: "I just don't trust none of y'all." pic.twitter.com/MtftOpa3e4

There was Green's famous "b---h" multiple times and "We don't need you" rant against KD in the summer of 2018? Without you, we won. Let's leave.

KD didn't like how the team handled the situation and said it wasn't addressed beyond Green's one game suspension. He quit the team.

It's not for him to say whether leaving the Warriors was a mistake or not. The Dubs are in the finals and it looks like the wrong decision.

Even though he will have more time to win with the Nets, he seems to really enjoy playing with his friend and teammate. Even if his former teammate thought it was the wrong choice, he hasn't said much about it.