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Draymond: KD was 'elephant in the room' for Warriors

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The documentary "The Last Dance" about the end of the Chicago Bulls' 1990s dynasty has NBAers talking, and on Monday Draymond Green was asked about parallels to Kevin Durant's departure from the Golden State Warriors last year.

Green said head coach Steve Kerr - who also played on those Bulls teams - offered his own last dance analogy before the 2018-19 season began.

"Steve would kind of hit on it like, 'let's just enjoy this year for what it is because we don't know what next year holds,'" Green told Uninterrupted.

The elephant in the room, however, was Durant's impending free agency.

"(What Kerr said) didn't necessarily carry the same weight because what should have happened was Kevin come out and say, 'hey man, this is it,'" Green said.

"But you just can't leave the elephant in the room. Because what happened was the question came to us every day. Every time we spoke to the media, Klay (Thompson) and myself were asked about our contracts," Green continued.

"And then you kind of had Kevin, like 'I dunno what I'm gonna do next year' and it don't matter. It does matter, because you're not the only person that has to answer that question," he said. "And to be quite frank with you, you're honestly the last person that has to answer the question because you don't really say shit. You don't say much to the media, if anything, you tell them to shut the f--- up."

"... So I'm stuck answering that question all the time, and due to that there was always an elephant in the room amongst us," Green added.

Durant said in February he had already decided about leaving the Warriors midway through last season.

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