The Nets still haven’t introduced Kevin Durant, so the star introduced himself in a wide-ranging interview on everything from why he left Golden State for Brooklyn and the betrayal he felt in Oklahoma City to his hatred of the NBA circus.

Durant – who ruptured his Achilles tendon in June during the NBA Finals, then left the Warriors for the Nets later that month – is on the cover of WSJ Magazine’s September Men’s Style Issue. And he gives an exclusive interview that’s candid and telling.

“Some days I hate the NBA,” Durant admits. “Some days I hate the circus of the NBA. Some days I hate that the players let the NBA business, the fame that comes with the business, alter their minds about the game. Sometimes I don’t like being around the executives and politics that come with it. I hate that.”

The article drives home what many already know: that being in a good headplace isn’t just lip service with Durant. It played a key role in him picking Brooklyn.

Durant talked about wanting kids and the search for the right woman being tougher than he thought. And about connecting to young fans on social media, Instagram being an introvert’s utopia and how unnerving it is seeing hatred posing as fandom.

“We talk about mental health a lot. We only talk about it when it comes to players. We need to talk about it when it comes to executives, media, fans. It made me realize how big this whole s–t is,” said Durant, the “s–t” being “the machine.”

Right before the June 30 start of free agency, Durant’s friend and business partner Rich Kleiman gave him a final overview of all the teams from which he was choosing. Picking the Nets was simple.

“All right. Well. I’m going with Brooklyn,” Durant told Kleiman. Why? He always had “felt love” playing in Barclays Center, and wondered what it would be like be on the home team – and do it alongside Kyrie Irving, his “best friend in the league.”

Clearly, Durant never felt that love in Golden State. Though he rubbished the narrative that he left because of a one-off tiff with Draymond Green that he dismissed as “a bulls–t argument that meant nothing,” he admitted he always felt like an outsider, saying he’s “just different” than his old Warriors teammates.

“I came in there wanting to be part of a group, wanting to be part of a family, and definitely felt accepted. But I’ll never be one of those guys. I didn’t get drafted there. Steph Curry, obviously drafted there. Andre Iguodala, won the first Finals, first championship. Klay Thompson, drafted there. Draymond Green, drafted there,” said Durant, citing the other Warriors as rehab projects.

“It didn’t feel as great as it could have been,” Durant added. In short, he wanted to be a part of the team, but always felt apart from them. “And on top of that, the media always looked at it like KD and the Warriors. So it’s like nobody could get a full acceptance of me there.”

That’s a vast improvement from the pure hatred when he left Oklahoma City. Fans made videos in front of his home burning his jerseys, and Durant said he got a “venomous toxic feeling” from Thunder employees when he went back as a Warrior in February 2017.

“I eventually wanted to come back to that city and be part of that community and organization, but I don’t trust nobody there. That s–t must have been fake, what they was doing,” Durant said. “The organization, the GM, I ain’t talked to none of those people, even had a nice exchange with those people, since I left.”

Durant admitted he’s “always been on a search” for happiness. He sounds like he’s hoping that’s reaching an end in Brooklyn, saying he switched to No. 7 because it represents completion in the Bible.

The Nets moved their Friday Oct. 18 preseason finale against the defending champion Raptors from Nassau Coliseum to Barclays Center.