Richard Jefferson feels Draymond and KD unfairly threw Bob Myers and Steve Kerr under the bus following dispute
On a recent episode of the “Road Trippin’” podcast, host Richard Jefferson expressed some thoughts on Draymond Green’s recent discussion with former teammate Kevin Durant on Green’s “Chips” podcast.
Green and Durant essentially placed most of the blame for their infamous Staples Center blowup on Warriors Head Coach, Steve Kerr, and General Manager, Bob Myers. Green had recalled some choice words he shared with Myers during the whole ordeal.
“I said, ‘Y’all about to f--k this up’... The only person (sic) that can make this right is me and K,” Green said in his second meeting with Kerr and Myers. “And in my opinion, they f--ked it up. And they told me right then and there like, ‘We’re going to suspend you for this game.’ I laughed in their face, and Bob said to me ‘Wow, that was not the reaction I was looking for or expecting,’ and I said ‘Well either I’mma laugh in your face, or I’mma cuss you the f--k out.’ So, you pick.”
Jefferson, on his podcast, brought up the fact that he himself had gotten into a physical altercation with former teammate Kenyon Martin. He said he and Martin were called to then Head Coach Byron Scott’s office where they had to discuss their issues. Jefferson expressed that he and Martin worked through their issues and realized there was a misunderstanding between the two and that they actually ended up forming a stronger relationship afterward.
Jefferson related his story to Green and Durant’s situation and he wanted to see the pair take more accountability for their incident.
“When they were talking about ‘well, you know, only me and KD can fix this’ and blah blah, and it’s like, well okay, well why didn’t you fix it, and obviously it didn’t really get fixed if you left,” Jefferson said. “So is this really on Steve Kerr? Is this really on Bob Myers? That to me was just like, at no point in time in any bit of their conversation was it like ‘you know what, there are some things I wish I did differently, but the way they handled it didn’t help.’ And that was the part I just didn’t hear enough of.”
It’s all water under the bridge at this point for Green and Durant, who returned from the Tokyo Olympics recently with fresh Gold medals. And all of the dialogue around their issues are neither here nor there, but the situation was so polarizing at the time that it still gets brought up today, and will likely continue to be talked about for years to come.