Steven Adams admitted he has no ill will toward Kevin Durant, despite saying he would have handled his exit from the Oklahoma City Thunder differently. In a recent podcast appearance with ESPN's Zach Lowe, Adams discussed how he wrote that aforementioned opinion in his 2018 autobiography: My Life, My Fight: Rising up from New Zealand to the OKC Thunder, but was still cordial with Durant, even sending him a Facebook message once after his departure.
“It's the communication part of it. People are gonna be upset regardless,” Adams said on The Lowe Post Podcast discussing Durant's decision to leave the Thunder. “But they can still respect you in the sense that you kind of respect the relationship that you guys built, if that makes sense. Not that I take it too personally myself, because my time with him was limited, and it's also like he's older, I'm younger sort of thing. So I don't really like to try and criticize him for the thing. But I was just saying, if I was in his situation, any sort of relationship that I would've built up, I probably would've let them know first. Just gives them a heads up. Or even afterward, even after the whole deal like, ‘Hey bro, yada, yada, yada.'”
Adams admits the two haven't kept in touch much since Durant left the Thunder, but does remember sending him a message on Facebook, a platform he doesn't seem to use much.
“No, not at all,” he said. “I sent him a message on Facebook, but I don't think he uses Facebook.”
Durant is plenty savvy, but he prefers the confines of Twitter and Instagram for internet banter, as well as YouTube to watch clips of old basketball games and the occasional series, now that he's helping produce ESPN's The Boardroom.
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