Jae Crowder mad at Celtics over Kevin Durant pitch meeting

The Boston Celtics were in the hunt to land Kevin Durant but their pitch went too far according to Jae Crowder.

A pro tip for NBA teams that are pursuing free agents: Don’t share everything you know about a team (or teams).

The Boston Celtics did just that in their meeting with Kevin Durant before he chose the Golden State Warriors and it backfired on them, as Durant chose to head to Oakland.

Jae Crowder, a member of the Durant pitch meeting for the Celtics, wasn’t happy about that decision.

"“We were the only team in the NBA to beat (Cleveland and Golden State) on their home court. The only team in the NBA, the Boston Celtics,” Crowder said, via MassLive.com.“We told him that. We played him clips from both games and told him basically the scouting report of how we guarded Steph (Curry) and Klay (Thompson) — our entire game plan, basically. That’s what made me mad. We f—ing told him everything we do to beat these guys, and we beat them, and he went and joined them.”"

Crowder sounded heated when he mentioned a discussion with All-Star guard and teammate Isaiah Thomas.

“Afterward, I was talking to Isaiah (Thomas), like maybe after you sit back, (we) shouldn’t have told him everything, but who the f— thought he was going to Golden State, realistically? It was like a slap in the face for us, basically.”

In the discussion, Crowder continued on and expressed his (and the displeasure of others) issues with the idea of “superteams” in the NBA.

“That team [Golden State] is for sure the villain of the league,” Crowder said.

“Every other NBA guy, friends of mine, are really disgusted from how the league is turning on that standpoint. Everybody is joining together, everybody wants to go to Golden State or Cleveland.”

Well, it would make sense for players to want to play for the only two teams that have advanced to the NBA Finals in the last two seasons, wouldn’t it?

(h/t MassLive.com)

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