It was hard for even Kevin Durant to imagine playing for the Golden State Warriors while watching the NBA Finals this past season. Until they lost.

Durant admitted that ultimately he was happy with the outcome of the Warriors' 7-game loss to the Cleveland Cavaliers in the Finals this past June. Otherwise, he may not have been able to come to Oakland.

Via ESPN.com:

“I guess you could say I'm glad that they lost.”

Durant went on to explain that after the Warriors lost, the possibility of him joining them became more real.

“As they lost, it became more and more real every day,” Durant said. “You start to think about it even more. To see if I would fit. Then once I sat down with these guys, everything that I wanted to know about them, they kinda showed me. But we don't have to talk about [what would have happened if the Warriors had won the title], because they didn't get the job done, and they came after me.”

Durant knew as he was watching the Finals the kind of public outcry there would be if he chose to leave the Thunder for the Warriors. He didn't love it, but other things ultimately mattered more to him.

KD saw the brand of basketball the Warriors were playing and imagined himself a part of it more than ever before. The temptation to join that type of team became too much to resist.

“[My agent] Rich [Kleiman], who's here, we were watching Game 7,” Durant told reporters at a ceremony in which the Warriors were presented with the ENCORE Award from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. “Well, as it started to unfold, it was, ‘No question, no way could you go to this team.' And I was just like a kid, like, ‘I'd really like playing with these guys. I'd get wide-open 3s, I could just run up and down the court, get wide-open layups.' I was basically begging him. I was like, ‘Yo, this would be nice.'”

We've already seen it in a few preseason games, but the Warriors with Durant are going to be just like what KD imagined. Plenty of open layups, threes and basically putting on some of the most entertaining basketball anyone's ever seen. It's going to be fun to watch and fun for Durant.