It might be an entire season after Kevin Durant parted ways with the Oklahoma City Thunder, but some of his former teammates still hold a very real grudge with the four-time scoring champ to this day. Enes Kanter, who lives in the same apartment complex as the Finals MVP, was warned with anticipation.
“I'm not going to tell who, but one of my teammates, a couple of weeks before that scrimmage game, said ‘If I see one picture with you and KD,' because he knows that KD lives in the same apartment [complex] as me, ‘don't come back to OKC,'” Kanter candidly said in an interviews Timeout with Taylor Rooks podcast. “I'm not going to tell who, but he said that.”
This only caught the player's attention after NBA trainer Chris Brickley posted pictures and videos of his Blackout Sessions at Life Time Athletic at Sky, where some of the elite stars of the sport came together for some high-intensity pick-up games during the summer.
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While Kanter, J.R. Smith, and Carmelo Anthony were the first to appear in some of this year's videos, suddenly, the likes of LeBron James and Durant joined in on the fun, making Kanter's teammate have a moment after he was seen playing in the same game as Durant.
“After the scrimmage game, 45 minutes later, he called me and said, ‘Did you talk to him?,'” Kanter said. “He heard about the game, so he asked me if I talked to him, if I was friendly or not, if I was on his team. I said I wasn’t on his team, and he said, ‘You’re lying, I watched you on his team.' I said ‘Ok, I was on his team a little bit.'”
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While this doesn't sound very different from a jealous girlfriend inquiring about an ex, it surely isn't any short of the intensity with which he was welcomed to Chesapeake Energy Arena last season, getting into it with Andre Roberson at one point in the game.
In a new-look Thunder, there aren't many remaining players who would have a beef with Durant aside from former running mate Russell Westbrook, center Steven Adams, and Roberson, with a very unlikely chance of it coming from veteran Nick Collison, who is on his last year as a pro and likely trying to have it as drama-free as humanly possible.
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