Jae Crowder Comments on Celtics’ Recruitment of Kevin Durant

Boston Celtics forward Jae Crowder pulled out all the stops to recruit Kevin Durant in free agency but was more than disappointed when KD chose the Golden State Warriors instead.

Speaking from the Basketball Hall of Fame on Thursday, Crowder outlined how aggressive the process was to lure Durant—including how the Celtics divulged information they perhaps wished they wouldn’t have—per ESPN.com’s Chris Forsberg (warning: NSFW language):

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 [Curry] and Klay [Thompson] — our entire game plan, basically. That’s what made me mad. We f—ing 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 [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.

Although the Celtics did do well to land former Atlanta Hawks big man Al Horford on the open market and could still make more moves, Durant would have been a true game-changer. 

Crowder mentioned how New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady was part of the contingent that tried to persuade Durant to put on a Celtics …

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