Nearly a year has passed since the infamous tiff between Draymond Green and Kevin Durant in the visitor's locker room of Staples Center after a loss to the Los Angeles Clippers early last season. Green was quick to apologize and mend fences with his former Golden State Warriors teammate, but in retrospect he admits he was wrong to approach him so brashly about something that was in the back of his mind.

Green and president Bob Myers recalled the issue during an appearance in ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski‘s The Woj Pod.

“Where are you now with that?” Myers asked Green during the podcast. “I don't even know.”

“I just had to accept the fact that I was wrong. And once I was able to get over my stubbornness and accept the fact that I was wrong, I was able to move on,” said Draymond Green. “I lost [Durant's] trust. How do I get that back? Not so we can win a championship or we can win some games … but I actually loved this guy, like that's really my brother. And so not knowing what's next in our relationship bothered me more.

“Bob and [head coach Steve Kerr], they told me, like, ‘You need to apologize to Kevin,' before I got suspended. And I said, ‘No, I'm not apologizing because y'all telling me to apologize. I'm not gonna do that.' And I didn't. And I never apologized to him until I came to grips with myself. … Not because of some games or the team ain't flowing right. But I can kind of see a look in my brother's face that I have not seen. He's hurt. How do I fix that? And that was what bothered me more than anything.”

Myers didn't feel good about punishing Green and suspending him for one game due to conduct detrimental to the team, but he was in peace, knowing he'd done the right thing.

“The only way I can go to bed after that decision was I thought what we did was right,” said Myers. “Sometimes in life you do the best you can. … And could it have been handled differently? I think it could be handled differently preceding that. If I had to go back, it wouldn't have been after. It would have been before.

“What people don't know — which is so hard to know, which requires time and energy — is Kevin and Draymond probably will be the closest guys. They're going to be friends for their whole life like this … In the aftermath when they spoke, they laid it out for each other and they're like, OK, I got ya. Like, now I know where you're coming from, from both sides. But that could have happened earlier and that would've prevented it.”

This caustic episode of the Warriors' fifth championship run i surely one for the books, though there weren't any serious reverberations from it through the rest of the season like many others expected.