Green takes the blame for last season’s spat with teammate Durant

It takes a big man to admit that he’s wrong. And Draymond Green is a big man, no matter what the NBA’s new height-weight protocols say.

Last November, Green got into a very public verbal altercation with Kevin Durant in the Warriors’ bench area during the late stages of a game.

There was frost on the GreenDurant relationship for a spell. The Warriors suspended Green for one game without pay.

Recently Green, appearing on the Woj podcast with Warriors GM Bob Myers, talked about the aftermath of the blow-up and how he came to understand he needed to take accountability.

“I started to tell myself in my mind, wow, (Myers is) flipping on me,” Green told ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. “And it just felt like, wow, OK is this not the guy I’ve known for all these years? Is he turning on me? And I started to tell

myself all of these things, and then everybody’s like, ‘Oh my God, the Warriors sided with Kevin Durant.’ That was the hardest thing for me, because a lot of people don’t understand me. Bob does.”

Even as the podcast was rolling, Myers wasn’t sure about Green’s mindset regarding the spat.

“Where are you now with that?” Myers asked. “I don’t even know.”

Green said, “I just had to accept the fact that I was wrong, and once I was able to get over my stubbornness and accept the fact that I was wrong, I was able to move on. I lost (Durant’s) trust. How do I get that back? Not so we can win a championship or we can win some games, but I actually loved this guy, like that’s really my brother. And so not knowing what’s next in our relationships bothered me more.”

Green apologized to Durant. But it appears their relationship is a fluid situation. In September, during an interview with the Wall Street Journal Magazine, Durant said his time at Golden State “didn’t feel as great as it could have been.” He also said that teammates who had been drafted by the Warriors were favorite sons of the organization.

Then there was this: “I’ll never be one of those guys.”

Green disagrees, as brothers often do.

“When Kevin says, ‘Oh, I wasn’t a part of that, or like I was different than those guys,’ a part of it is like, no, he (was) one of us and (his attitude makes me angry).”