Did Kevin Durant’s exit strategy take root in Warriors’ 2018 victory parade?

Golden State Warriors’ Stephen Curry holds up the Larry O’Brien NBA Championship Trophy at the end of the Warriors championship rally followed by their victory parade at 11th Street and MLK Jr. Way in Oakland, Calif., on Tuesday, June 12, 2018.We may never know fully why Kevin Durant bolted the Warriors for the Brooklyn Nets.

Or, it might be as simple as cueing up the video.

Kendrick Perkins, a one-time teammate of Durant’s at Oklahoma City, talking to The Undefeated, said an ill-considered crack that happened just minutes before the Warriors’ victory parade in June 2018 hit Durant the wrong way. It happened in a televised exchange between Warriors’ president of basketball operations Bob…