This won’t come as a surprise, but …

This won’t come as a surprise, but Kevin Durant decided to leave the Warriors before last season ended. The two-time NBA Finals MVP was a guest on the most recent episode of Showtime’s “All the Smoke” podcast with Matt Barnes and Stephen Jackson, and was asked when he decided his time with Golden State was up: “I knew just about the halfway point through the year. I could feel, you know, the separation between the two. Everybody was just waiting on me to make a decision on free agency — coaches, to my teammates, to the media — it’s like January and I’m like, ‘Yo, I’m just trying to hoop.’