Simmons: Well, I didn’t like that he did it that way. I just thought it was tacky, especially since he was from Ohio. The other thing is I just thought he handled the last few months, like Boston beat them in the playoffs.
Durant: He didn’t handle it the way that you wanted him to handle it.
Simmons: Yeah, I think that’s it, which is a bad reason, right?
Durant: But you don’t matter.
Simmons: I know
Durant: Simple as that.
Simmons: You finished your OKC stint and you had a great last series against Golden State, right? Took ’em to the brink. Gave ’em everything you had. LeBron had a really weird last series. The whole thing didn’t sit right.
Durant: Who cares? What did he do for that city, that team, all the time that he was there? He did everything he could.
Simmons: For some reason the way you did it made more sense to me. Because I took it as, you were in a place for a long time, you hit a certain point in your life, in your late 20s, and you wanted a life change. You wanted to just play a different style and live in a different city and have different experiences.
Durant: Kill me for it. That’s what everybody wants to do now.
Simmons: But maybe I should have felt that way about LeBron, maybe he [just] wanted a different experience in Miami.
Durant: Yes! He did! Kill him for it! What do you want to do? What do you want him to do? You want him to do exactly what you want him to do.
Simmons: I wanted him to do what I wanted him to do. I wanted him to stay in Cleveland.
Durant: But is it your life?
Simmons: Actually what I wanted him to do was go to New York. I thought that was the ballsiest move.
Durant: Yeah, but you wanted him to do what you wanted him to do.
Simmons: Yeah.
Durant: But is it your life? Do you got to live it? And I realized that when I made this decision. Because when LeBron made that decision, I was like, “Man, I wonder why he did that.”
at how many times Simmons flip-flopped.
dope ASS interview
