NBA star Kevin Durant made headlines way before the 2025 NBA off-season. Started. The Houston Rockets star recently appeared on the widely watched podcast Mind the Game, hosted by Los Angeles Lakers icon LeBron James and former Chicago Bulls coach Steve Nash . During the second half of the podcast, Durant gave a clear picture of the failure behind the fallout with the Brooklyn Nets after the failure of the Big 3 experiment.
NBA star Kevin Durant reveals the real reason behind Brooklyn Nets fallout
During the recent appearance on the popular podcast Mind the Game, Kevin Durant spoke about almost everything related to the NBA. From talking about the recent NBA draft to ending his free agency stint with the Houston Rockets, Durant shared his take on almost everything. While discussing the current condition of the NBA, Kevin Durant brought up the real picture of the much-hyped fallout with the Brooklyn Nets back in 2022. The Nets were on the verge of experimenting with three big names in the basketball fraternity, including Kevin Durant, James Harden , and Kyrie Irving .
While talking about the Brooklyn Nets with his former coach Steve Nash, he said,
“We had this conversation in Portland, I think, right before a game, and I’m like, who am I spending my next five years with? I had just signed that deal. You had just signed a deal. But I feel like we were secure, but everything else around us was going to sh**.”
Durant further elaborated,
“Not in a bad way. We’ve got GMs going to other teams. We’ve got coaches going to other teams. We’ve got players forcing trades. We’ve brought in Ben Simmons. He hurt his back. Like, it was just so much bulls*** around us.”
After leading the Golden State Warriors to two back-to-back championships and suffering an Achilles injury in 2019, Kevin Durant tried building a championship-winning team with the Brooklyn Nets too. He went on to join the Nets with James Harden and Kyrie Irving, and the team was coached by none other than Steve Nash back then.