Bill Simmons: I enjoyed 80 percent of what they did, because I’m of the belief of they’re fans. You’re cheering your team. You’re rooting against the other team.

Kevin Durant: Why only 80 percent?

BS: Because I didn’t like yelling at the family and stuff like that. I thought that crossed the line. I think they’re going to chant cupcake, they’re going to give you (expletive) because you left. I get it. It seemed that there was a personal edge I didn’t like.

KD: I don’t know. I didn’t hear it. I don’t know if they said anything to my mom. I don’t know about that. I didn’t even ask her about that type of stuff. But I think she was just more so — she’s a mom, you know what I’m saying? Like, she doesn’t see it from a fan’s perspective. Like, she doesn’t see that I left a city, a small market at that; this is their only professional team, and they’re so hurt about who I went to and all that stuff. So she doesn’t see it as that. She sees it as a mom should. Like, I’ve been there for so long. I did so much in that community and for the team and for the organization. And just like a mom should, a caring, loving person should, she thinks that I should be commended for it. Me on the other hand, me and Rich (Kleiman) were telling her — like, I don’t think she realized what was coming. Weeks before the game, my mom was, like, ‘I want to walk down on the floor.’ I’m like, ‘You got to relax. This is not — I don’t play here no more.’ Fans don’t really care about once you leave them, especially in that city. Like, who you were when you were there or anything. So me and Rich had to tell her ‘This might not be what you really think it’s going to be. It’s no videos. It’s no cheering. It’s none of that.’ And we understood that. And I knew that coming in. That’s why I was a little more relaxed than I thought. But as far as yelling at my mom, I didn’t hear none of that. I didn’t see any of that. And she was just upset about — she looked back on the eight years that I was in Oklahoma City and what I did, and she really thought it was a homecoming. And I’m, like, ‘Nah, it’s not like that.’ And we understood that. I did, at least.