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Draymond and KD Reveal What Really Happened with Warriors Fallout | FULL INTERVIEW (Chips)

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Draymond Green and Kevin Durant finally sat down together to settle the score on what actually broke up the Warriors.

On August 18, 2021, Bleacher Report dropped a 24-minute sit-down between Draymond Green and Kevin Durant on Green’s show, “Chips” — the first formal on-camera conversation the two have had since Durant left Golden State for the Brooklyn Nets in the summer of 2019. The centerpiece of the talk is the November 2018 blowup during an overtime loss to the Los Angeles Clippers, when Green called out Durant’s looming free agency in front of the team and drew a one-game suspension for it. Nearly three years later, both players finally said out loud who they think actually botched the aftermath.

• Green and Durant agree the November 2018 Clippers-game argument itself did not push Durant out of Golden State — they place that blame on head coach Steve Kerr and general manager Bob Myers.
• Durant says Kerr “acted like it didn’t happen” and that Myers tried to “discipline you and think that would put the mask over everything,” referencing “The Last Dance” to argue the team needed an honest conversation instead of pretending nothing happened.
• Green revealed front-office pressure to apologize to Durant the next morning, telling management, “Y’all about to f— this up… in my opinion, they f—ed it up” — a verdict Durant explicitly co-signs.

The Night That Broke the Dynasty’s Silence

The incident itself is well-documented: Golden State lost in overtime to the Clippers, and in the locker room afterward Green called out Durant over his impending free agency, sparking a heated confrontation that spilled into public view. The Warriors suspended Green one game for conduct detrimental to the team. What “Chips” adds nearly three years later isn’t a new account of the shouting match — it’s what happened in the days after, and who both players now say actually let the wound fester.

Green recalled that Golden State’s front office leaned on him to smooth things over with Durant the following morning, which he says was the wrong move entirely. “The only person that can make this right is me and K,” Green said he told management, adding flatly that “they f—ed it up.” Durant didn’t push back on that read — he affirmed it on the spot, a rare moment of the two former teammates agreeing on exactly where blame belongs.

Kerr, Myers, and the ‘Last Dance’ Comparison

Durant’s sharpest words in the interview aren’t for Green at all. He said Kerr “acted like it didn’t happen” once the dust settled, and that Myers tried to “discipline you and think that would put the mask over everything” rather than actually addressing what had gone wrong between two of the franchise’s biggest stars. Durant invoked “The Last Dance” documentary to make his point, arguing the Warriors needed one direct, uncomfortable conversation instead of management quietly hoping the tension would dissolve on its own — an approach he says “made s— weird” and undercut the team’s own “family first” messaging.

“Y’all about to f— this up. The only person that can make this right is me and K… and in my opinion, they f—ed it up.”

No Regrets, in Either Direction

Durant made clear he doesn’t second-guess either exit that defined his career. Asked about leaving Oklahoma City for Golden State back in 2016, he said he’d “do that s–t a million times.” He extended the same logic to leaving the Warriors for Brooklyn in 2019, saying he has no regrets given the two championships he won in Golden State — even though the Warriors fell short of a three-peat that final season together. For Durant, the math is simple: two rings and a fresh start with Kyrie Irving in Brooklyn outweighs whatever went sideways in the locker room in November 2018.

Beyond the Fallout

The conversation ranged well past the Clippers-game blowup. Durant talked about his complicated relationship with the media, admitted to running social media burner accounts, and discussed adjusting to life in Brooklyn alongside Kyrie Irving. It’s the kind of unguarded, extended access that rarely happens between players who split under public tension — the sort of moment that tends to get replayed and picked apart the way controversial celebrity flare-ups often do, the same way other controversial moments from 2021 kept resurfacing in the news cycle long after they happened.

What makes the “Chips” sit-down land differently than the usual clear-the-air interview is that neither guy is selling reconciliation for its own sake — they’re both pointing at the same two names, Kerr and Myers, and calling it exactly how they saw it. That’s rarer than it sounds among ex-teammates who drifted apart under public scrutiny and never bothered to say why. Durant’s now gearing up for his second full season in Brooklyn next to Kyrie Irving and James Harden, chasing the title Golden State couldn’t finish with him in 2019 — and this interview is the closest either side has come to explaining, on the record, why that run ended the way it did.