Kevin Durant joining the Golden State Warriors did not come as a surprise to Andrew Bogut.
The big fella thinks the two sides basically had an agreement in place before the free agency period began.
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The Dubs quickly shipped Bogut to Dallas after snagging KD.
Per ESPN:
Was it tough for you to focus on the season in front of you, or were you able to shut all that out?
A.B.: “No, it is what it is. We had so many distractions off the court that we could have got caught up into. Not just that, [but] every day was something different. We had full-time people from ESPN following us on every trip. We had all kinds of stuff going on. That’s just something you’ve got to block out. It was just, compared to a 7-8-9 seed or a 5-6-7 seed, it was magnified a hundredfold because of the record and everything. So it felt like a lot of times during the season that every game was a Finals game because of the record. I don’t know what bearing that had on wearing us out and guys getting hurt toward the playoffs, but it definitely took a bit of a toll.”
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