Rick Welts Comments on Signing Kevin Durant, Star’s Future with Warriors
“There’s no commitment from Kevin”, he said.
“For a few days after I didn’t leave my bed (later he clarified, his rented house in the Hamptons) because I was like ‘if I walk outside somebody might just hit me with their vehicle, or say anything negative to me.’ Like I said I never had this reputation, and so many people who don’t even watch basketball are telling me congratulations, and good luck going forward, it’s insane how big I got and how big this got….” “We, like every other team, probably didn’t think it was going to happen, and I can assure you we had no indication it was going to happen until the phone rang at 7:30 in the morning in Bob Myers’ cabin on Lake Tahoe and Kevin called to give us his decision”. I like getting to the rack. “But to be absolutely clear, I don’t think it’s ideal from a league standpoint”.
National Basketball Association star players Kevin Durant and Andre Roberson last week helped young Taiwanese players train their game skills and improve their teamwork in a series of mini-camp programs, which are held annually during the summer school break.
Plenty have talked about Durant in a negative manner ever since leaving the Thunder for the Warriors.
On Friday, Heat president Pat Riley (who knows a thing or two about super-teams) offered his solution to this problem: create an National Basketball Association franchise tag, which would allow each team to sign one player for as much money as they wanted, no salary cap rules applied. “It’s two guys. They got a voice in our game and a lot of people thought the same way but don’t have a voice”.
Regarding the massive resentment in Oklahoma City, Durant said: “I understand where they’re coming from”.
As he’s done in year’s past, Krzyzewski met with the team and staff privately Sunday night, showing players video clips from previous years and delivering a motivational speech about what it means to represent the United States. “And I have no idea what is in his mind or heart in terms of how he went about making that decision, but we’ll see”. Just as far as going to the hole.
“It was cool – my first time there, ” Durant said. “It hurts me. I was hurt for a few days because I know I hurt so many people in Oklahoma City by changing teams”.
Three NBA players are the subject of NBA Trade Rumors 2016, namely Russell Westbrook, Marcin Gortat, and Blake Griffin.
That’s maybe true for some players, but again, many players (understandably) care more about winning championships than anything else.