While the severity of the injury is waiting to be confirmed via an MRI, the belief is he has a torn right Achilles tendon. The seriousness of the injury caused many Warriors fans to become upset, and even led to Warriors GM Bob Myers giving a tearful injury update at the end of the game.
All of this plays into just how awful it was to see several Raptors fans in the arena celebrate Durant’s injury.
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In the video above, not only can you hear cheering, but you can see multiple fans gleefully waving goodbye to Durant. Players on both sides were obviously frustrated by this on the court, and after the game they expressed their feelings more in depth. Let’s go through some of the Warriors who had some opinions.
Steph Curry:
Klay Thompson:
“Like that was probably their initial thought, and you hate to see that when a guy’s going through pain like that. Again, that’s not my experience with this city, and I just hope that ugliness doesn’t show itself again as we go forward in this series.”
Draymond Green:
DeMarcus Cousins:
It seems like one of the few Raptors fans who actually acted appropriately was Drake.
As for the other side, the Raptors players were also upset with their own fans for how they reacted. Kyle Lowry tried to come up with an explanation as to why some fans reacted the way they did.
“I don’t think the fans knew the significance of the injury,” Lowry said. “They kind of just seen he went down. In this league, we’re all brothers. At the end of the day, we’re all brothers and it’s a small brotherhood and you never want to see a competitor like him go down. You don’t know what the circumstances are. We don’t want anything to ever happen like that. We don’t know what’s this or that. We don’t want that type of stuff. And it didn’t change much emotionally. It was just after he went down, and we got on and finished the game.”
Durant scored 11 points on 3-of-5 shooting in 12 minutes before exiting the game.
