The Warriors lost to the Grizzlies for the second time this season, casting a huge shadow over their title defense hopes.
Of course, it also caused Durant to fall completely behind in his rivalry with Link.
At the postgame press conference, reporters kept asking Durant about his promise to "pay it back double." Obviously, no one knew what exactly Durant had managed to repay twofold today.
Even if he had not won the game, he should at least have put up better numbers than Link.
Yet today, whether in terms of the result or his individual performance, Durant had lost to Link.
That kind of double repayment was certainly quite unique.
Durant spent the entire press conference in embarrassment and humiliation.
If he could, he truly wished he could go back a month, back to the day the Warriors and Grizzlies first met this season.
It was not that he wanted to change the result of that game. He just wanted to warn his past self never to say something as stupid as "pay it back double"!
Meanwhile, in the Warriors' locker room, countless reporters crowded around Draymond Green, asking what he and Durant had been shouting about after the game and whether there was a conflict between them.
Green naturally denied those speculations outright, saying only that he and Durant had been discussing the game.
But only an idiot would believe that explanation.
Although reporters did not yet have evidence of discord between Green and Durant, once a crack had formed, they had every ability to widen it little by little until everything collapsed!
Even if Green and Durant truly had no issues, reporters would still write locker-room stories as complicated as a Chinese palace intrigue drama.
And once a team developed locker-room problems... they would only drift farther