Kevin Durant’s initial fury was and remains directly tied to Draymond Green’s vicious words delivered on that Staples Center bench. That’s at the root of the problem that, a week later, is still very much rotting the Warriors’ locker room chemistry at its core.



But this potentially dynasty-altering issue — and Durant’s trouble getting over it — is so much deeper than just what Green said. It’s the inescapable result of it: a dramatic, relentless modern-day media storm of “psychoanalysis” about Durant, the thing he despises most in this NBA world and the steep price of his fame, the subject of his most rebellious rants (on and off the record) the past couple years.



“In this locker room, we’re all trying to let it go, he’s trying to let it go,” Shaun Livingston told The Athletic. “But it’s tough when everyone else is trying to keep it going.”



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