It's got to be at least somewhat awkward on Team USA this summer.

Movement during free agency sent Harrison Barnes from the Warriors to the Mavericks and Kevin Durant from the Thunder to the Warriors.

We avoided any potential Durant-Russell Westbrook reunion since Westbrook pulled out of the Olympics. But Barnes made the team and has to see Durant, the guy who replaced him, and former teammates Draymond Green and Klay Thompson, every day.

Green and Thompson spoke about their continued relationship with Barnes with NBA.com's Steve Aschburner:

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“Just because you go to a different team doesn't mean the relationship is over,” Green said Thursday. “Harrison? We won a championship together. We're linked together forever. We've been through some stuff. We had a first-round exit together, we've had a second-round exit together. We won a championship, we lost a championship. You don't just wash that away because someone goes to a different team. That's there – and it'll be there forever.”

Said Thompson: “It's weird. It's like the last chapter we'll play together in our basketball careers. But we're embracing it. HB's a great guy. It's a friendship that will last for a lifetime. I'm proud of him. He's only scratched the surface of what he can do. I'm happy for him, and me and Draymond are happy for one more go-round because he really is a great teammate.”

It helps that the three won a championship together two years ago and now they're together representing their country. These situations always arise in the Olympics. For the 2012 Games, Durant played alongside LeBron James who had just dismantled his Thunder in the NBA Finals.

The Warriors embodied team chemistry better than any team in the league the past few seasons. It's nice to see that no love is lost even when one of their players goes to another team.