Kanter appeared on the “Timeout with Taylor Rooks” podcast Friday and said that a mystery Thunder teammate was adamant that he not get too friendly with Durant during his offseason in New York City.

Not everybody was ready for him to move on.

The teammate – who Kanter refused to name – called Kanter prior to a pickup game Kanter played with Durant in New York.

“I’m not gonna tell who, but one of my teammates a couple weeks before that scrimmage game said, ‘If I see picture of you and KD’ – because he knows that KD lives in the same apartment as me – ‘don’t come back to OKC,’” Kanter said.

Kanter insisted to Chris Brickley, the organizer of the game, that he needed to be on LeBron James’ team rather than Durant’s. He was initially, but teams eventually changed.

About 45 minutes after the game, Kanter said, the teammate called him back.