Jae Crowder Furious Kevin Durant Joined Warriors, ‘We F**king Told Him Everything’
Boston Celtics forward Jae Crowder isn’t thrilled with Kevin Durant’s decision to sign with the Golden State Warriors to say the least. Crowder outlined how aggressive the process was to lure Durant and that the Celtics gave out information they probably now wish they wouldn’t have given out.
We were the only team in the NBA to beat Cleveland and Golden State on their home court. The only team in the NBA, the Boston Celtics. We told him that. We played him clips from both games and told him basically the scouting report of how we guarded Steph and Klay our entire game plan, basically. That’s what made me mad. We f**king told him everything we do to beat these guys, and we beat them, and he went and joined them.
Afterward, I was talking to Isaiah, like maybe after you sit back, we shouldn’t have told him everything, but who the f**k thought he was going to Golden State, realistically? It was like a slap in the face for us, basically.
The pitch, what he talked about was the city of Boston and the fans and how Tom Brady embraced it. It was great. I think Kevin needed to hear that. He wanted to hear how it was living in Boston, and Brady told him about the fans. I know about the fans; just like everybody knows. We told him: They’re really very passionate about their club and they really want to win. If you don’t do that, they let you hear it. But it’s all out of passion and all out of respect of the game. They want to win; it’s all about championships here.
I just text Danny Ainge, trying to see where everything is going. “After Durant’s decision, I just asked like, ‘Well, what’s the direction now?’ And he said, ‘We’re still trying to make moves.’ So that means we’re still active. And we still have a lot of assets, we still have a lot of young players. So we gotta figure it out. We can be as aggressive as we want to. But I do feel like we’re one or two pieces away still.
Horford’s going to help us out a lot. And last year we won 48 games without a guy of his nature. I just think that right there, what people see, speaks volumes. He can help us out a lot.
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