“When I knew about the return to the Euroleague, we agreed with Durant that the one who finishes the season first will visit the other and attend the matches. I thought I was going to enjoy the NBA Finals, it’s great. When the Nets played poorly and lost, I called Durant and told him he would have to go to Monaco. Kevin, however, retorted that he was going to mine play-off the game is impossible,” Mike James, the leader of the ULEB Euroleague Club Monaco, said in the “Players Choice” broadcast.
A week later, the situation changed, when the Brooklyn Nets played against the Boston Celtics in the first round of the playoffs. Before that, according to James, the leader of the Nets also had a bad premonition: “At the beginning of the playoffs, Durant called me and said: ‘I’ll be in your play-off match in a few weeks. I feel we will lose.”
The NBA superstar also kept his promise – “Nets” capitulated with 0:4 against “Celtics”. Durent later attended two quarter-final matches between Monaco and Olympiacos, both on the French Riviera and in Piraeus.
“Kevin Durant called me before the playoffs start, he’s like, ‘Yeah, I’m gonna be there at your playoff game in like a couple weeks. We fitting to lose.'” ????
— Mike James
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