Celtics Showed Kevin Durant 'Everything We Had' On Warriors During Free Agency Pitch

Kevin Durant surprised a lot of people when he chose to join the Golden State Warriors, no one more so than Boston Celtics forward Jae Crowder. Crowder was apparently deeply involved in Boston’s pitch to Durant in free agency, which included detailed scouting reports on the Warriors. According to Crowder, the Celtics laid out their entire strategy for beating Golden State, and Durant wound up taking that information with him to the Bay Area.

Here’s what Crowder had to say about Durant’s meeting with the Celtics and the information he now has in his possession;

"“We were the only team in the NBA to beat both (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 (expletive) told him everything we do to beat these guys, and we beat them, and he went and joined them. I mean, that’s part of the process, but I did not think he would go to those two teams…I felt like afterward, I was talking to Isaiah, like maybe after you sit back, you shouldn’t have told him everything, but who the (expletive) thought he was going to Golden State, realistically? It was like a slap in the face for us, basically.”"

Referring to the Warriors later in the interview, Crowder called the Warriors “the villain team of the league.”

While Crowder is obviously upset Durant didn’t sign with the Celtics, he can’t be mad at KD for now possessing the keys to beating his new team. Boston was dumb enough to give up that information knowing full well Durant could sign with Golden State. Unless the Celtics were 100 percent certain they were going to land Durant, they shouldn’t have offered up that kind of information on an opponent.