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Kevin Durant Says He’s ‘Glad’ Warriors Lost 2016 NBA Finals to Cavaliers
- Updated: October 11, 2016
While the Golden State Warriors may still be feeling the sting of their loss to the Cleveland Cavaliers in the 2016 NBA Finals, new comments by Kevin Durant suggest that defeat netted the Dubs a major victory in free agency.
According to ESPN.com’s Ethan Sherwood Strauss, Durant said Monday that Golden State losing to Cleveland may have been the domino that needed to fall in order for him to leave the Oklahoma City Thunder in favor of the two-time defending Western Conference champions:
As they lost, it became more and more real every day. You start to think about it even more. To see if I would fit. Then once I sat down with these guys, everything that I wanted to know about them, they kinda showed me. But we don’t have to talk about [what would have happened if the Warriors had won the title], because they didn’t get the job done, and …
