HOUSTON – Inside this very building, the Toyota Center, nearly six months ago in the Western Conference finals, Golden State Warriors All-Stars Draymond Green and Kevin Durant weren’t having it.

The Houston Rockets had just gone up 3-2 in the series, and while the pair was getting dressed in the locker room, they became irritated that a reporter would suggest they were in trouble.

“Get the [expletive] out of here,” Green responded swiftly. “Watch us figure this [expletive] out.” Durant, who was at the locker stall directly to Green’s right, spouted, “[Expletive], you [are expletive] crazy.”

They ended up figuring it out.

But now, it’s possible Monday’s profanity-laced engagement — directed at each other during an overtime loss to the Los Angeles Clippers — may be too problematic, too callous and too detrimental to overcome.

The Warriors suspended Green for one game without pay, citing “conduct detrimental to the team.” The organization felt Green took his beef too far after Durant called him out for not passing him the ball at the end of regulation.

But in actuality, Green’s rant was conduct detrimental to Durant’s future with the Warriors.

Kevin Durant and Draymond Green sit together on the bench during the first half Thursday night during a loss to the Rockets. (AP) More

After the Rockets wiped the floor with the Stephen Curry-less Warriors on Thursday night, it’s the team’s immediate future that is of concern.

“We’re banged up physically and banged up spiritually,” coach Steve Kerr said after the 107-86 loss. “There’s no getting around that.”

Yahoo Sports received additional accounts from numerous sources who were within earshot of what was verbalized in the Warriors’ heated huddle at the end of regulation Monday night.

Green called Durant a “bitch” multiple times, sources said. In a summarized version, sources said Green shouted, “You’re a bitch and you know you’re a bitch.” The rhetoric, sources said, continued even when Kerr attempted to direct the team’s attention to his whiteboard.

But what ultimately led to Green’s suspension, sources said, was a remark in which he dared Durant to bolt in free agency next summer. Durant has a player option for the 2019-20 season, and the Warriors want their superteam intact for the opening of their new arena, the Chase Center, in San Francisco next season.

Green blurted to Durant something along the lines of, “We don’t need you. We won without you. Leave,” sources said.

That stance couldn’t be any further from how the franchise views its odds of competing for titles in the future without Durant. The Warriors desperately want to re-sign the 7-foot small forward, and such a divisive incident in front of the entire team from one of their most influential players was deemed grounds for discipline.

Emotions got the best of both of them, but Green put the organization in a difficult spot.

There was a point during the argument when Durant cringed, and that was when it went from a typical competitive basketball argument to a personal shot that cut deep, sources said.

“If those emotions are what caused us to lose [Thursday night], then my bad,” said Green, who registered five boards, five assists and five turnovers in his first game back from the suspension. “But we’re not panicking. … We’re still the best team in the league and we’re going to win a bunch of games and go win another championship and we’ll be fine.”

But who said what matters in this situation.

The verbal jabs were uttered out of the very mouth of Green, who, two years ago, famously called Durant in the parking lot of Oracle Arena after losing Game 7 of the 2016 NBA Finals to LeBron James’ Cleveland Cavaliers and relayed to him that the Warriors needed him.

Durant has faced immense criticism for his decision to join the Warriors, and to hear his teammate, who he’s won two consecutive championships with, echo some of those critics was distressing.

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