Earlier reports had indicated that Westbrook was “hurt,” angry” and “ticked off,” both about Durant’s decision to defect to the rival Warriors and that Westbrook did not hear of the news from the forward’s own mouth. In his own news conference announcing his new deal Thursday, Westbrook told the media that he found about it “on the news, on the cellphones, the social media,” adding that he received “just a text message from [Durant], that’s about it.”

Asked if, in the wake of Westbrook’s contract, he would reach out to his ex-teammate, Durant said (via The Vertical), “That’s a touchy deal. I don’t know.”

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“It’s easy for someone else to tell me what I should do, but you guys don’t know how that whole thing [went down],” Durant added. “I don’t know, man. I’ll see after this is over and once everything dies down. Like I said before, at some point we’ll sit down and talk. But I don’t know when.”

Westbrook also indicated that, at some point, he and Durant would get together to discuss what happened in free agency, saying, “We’ve been together eight years. You don’t throw that away. Obviously, he’s now with a new team. But we definitely will talk, eventually. But, obviously, now we haven’t.”

Previously, Durant had said of opting to sign with Golden State, “I just told [Westbrook], I just let him know how I felt.” Apparently, that thought was expressed by a text message, and Durant was left with the impression that Westbrook “wasn’t happy about the decision, but he respected it as my friend.”