Though he plays in the Eastern Conference for a team that didn’t make the playoffs last season, Washington forward Markieff Morris didn’t mind sharing his thoughts on back-to-back Western Conference champion Golden State adding superstar Kevin Durant in free agency this summer.
[When reporters prodded the former Kansas star][1] on the NBA’s biggest news of the offseason, Morris didn’t hold back his criticism of Durant, sharing the opinion with some fans that the former MVP didn’t need to join forces with reigning back-to-back MVP Steph Curry and the Warriors, who just won a record 73 games in the regular season.
> “I don’t think it’s right,” Morris
> began, in a video interview captured
> by Kyle Weidie of truthaboutit.net,
> who covers the Wizards. “But it is
> what it is.”
As reporters tried to get more out of Morris on the move that caught the entire NBA’s attention, he obliged, following up with his judgment of the situation.
> “You don’t do that, man,” Morris said
> of Durant, Curry, Klay Thompson and
> Draymond Green forming a super-team
> that appears destined to win the 2017
> NBA title, or at the very least earn a
> rematch with LeBron James’ Cavaliers.
Trying to put himself in KD’s Nikes, Morris explained he didn’t understand why Durant, who just lost to Golden State in the West finals with Oklahoma City, would then join forces with the Warriors.
Morris claimed there would have been a “fire inside” him to come back and beat Golden State next season.
> “But a lot of guys are different,”
> Morris added. ” I just didn’t expect
> that from Durant. I know him a little
> bit, and I didn’t expect that.”
Watch Morris’ comments in their entirety below.
Markieff Morris with, of course, thoughts on Kevin Durant’s move to GSW… pic.twitter.com/8Ae70xApPC
— Veteran L(W)izard (@Truth_About_It) July 6, 2016
[1]: http://nba.nbcsports.com/2016/07/07/markieff-morris-on-kevin-durant-signing-with-warriors-that-aint-right/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
