Kevin Durant is pushing Boston Celtics forward Jayson Tatum to reach his full potential. While some might question that since they are competitors in the NBA, the Brooklyn Nets star reminded everyone else that they are also “brothers.”

Durant said as much on Twitter as he responded to Tatum's story on how the Nets scorer got mad at him during the first scrimmage of Team USA against the Select Team heading to last summer's Tokyo Olympics.

Indeed, even though Jayson Tatum could well be a threat on him and his Nets, Kevin Durant didn't seem to hesitate in helping the Celtics star become a better player. And that much is clear as he sees the 24-year-old as someone who is more than just an enemy on the court.

As Tatum shared on The Draymond Green Show, Durant really wanted him to be a “killer” on the court, which was why the Nets leader got mad at the Celtics star for passing him the ball.

“Somebody kicked me the ball, and on the Celtics I would shot it. But it was like I couldn’t shot it and I just remembered that KD was to the right of me [so] I passed it to him,” Tatum reminisced. “I remembered he got mad at me. He was like ‘Yo, don’t look at me. Be yourself, I need you to kill.”

Of course Tatum appreciated the gesture as it served as a wake-up call for him. A constant foe in Durant wanted the best for him, and so he needed to make the most of the opportunity.