On June 30th, first through tweets by Adrian Wojnarowski and Shams Charania then officially on The Boardroom’s Instagram account, the news broke that Kevin Durant would leave the Golden State Warriors to play for the Brooklyn Nets. For many Warriors fans, this was an inevitability, something they thought was coming, and they were ready for the whole saga to be over. But for your author, the news was still shocking and definitely affecting.
Part of it was because I was skeptical of the “it’s a done deal/there’s so much smoke” narrative — I didn’t trust any of the other teams, especially the New York Knicks, to pull off the coup of the century by securing a clandestine agreement from Durant even before the season was over— and thought that, in the end, Bob Myers and company would seal the deal.