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Irked Crowder: Celtics told Durant too much
- Updated: July 21, 2016
4:24 PM ET
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. — Boston Celtics forward Jae Crowder isn’t thrilled with Kevin Durant’s decision to sign with the Golden State Warriors.
During an appearance at the Basketball Hall of Fame on Thursday, Crowder repeatedly expressed dismay that Durant elected to join a “super team” rather than continue to fight against the one that won an NBA-record 73 games last season.
The Celtics were one of six teams that made a sales pitch to Durant at the start of free agency earlier this month.
“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,” Crowder told MassLive.com. “We told him that. We played him clips from both games and told him basically the scouting report of how we guarded Steph [Curry] and Klay [Thompson] — our entire game plan, basically. That’s what made me mad. We f—— told him everything we do to beat these guys, and we beat them, and he went and joined them. …
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“Afterward, I was talking to Isaiah [Thomas], like maybe after you sit back, [we] shouldn’t have told him everything, but who the f— thought he was going to Golden State, realistically? It was like a slap in the face for us, basically.”
Crowder, who was part of the Celtics contingent that traveled to the Hamptons to pitch Durant earlier this month, echoed what many in the traveling party already have said: Boston emerged from its …
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