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Durant won't share emotions with reporter after Game 1 loss: 'I'm not telling you'

Jerome Miron / USA TODAY Sports

Kevin Durant wasn't in the sharing mood after his Oklahoma City Thunder suffered an embarrassing Game 1 loss to the San Antonio Spurs in the Western Conference semifinals Saturday night.

"I'm not telling you," Durant told a reporter, when asked to describe his emotions after the 124-92 defeat.

Why not, the reporter wanted to know.

"Because it's over with," Durant said. "Move on. We just move past it and figure out what we have to do better. No crazy emotions. It's not like we were upset and screaming at each other in the locker room after the game. That's not going to make things better. We've just got to go out there and play better. So, no emotions."

Durant's reticence is understandable. In the immediate aftermath of a game in which he scored 16 points (just the third time this year he's scored fewer than 20) and registered a minus-31 rating, while the Thunder trailed by as many as 43, it's unlikely he'd have anything positive or productive to say.

Despite the lopsided score, the Thunder are trying to treat it as one loss, and nothing more.

"They won one game on their home court," said Russell Westbrook, who was similarly unwilling to talk about his feelings. "And now we've got to get ready and try and steal one here."

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