Welcome into ESPN senior writer Ramona Shelburne. Ramona, happy July 4th to you.

How are you? Is it, is this the, is this Kauai the fourth? Is that what we're going with?

Now we've had four or five days just, just to make up plays on his name now.

Is that where we're at?

That's exactly where it is.

But it's almost a fifth and maybe we'll get a decision today.

I think for the good of his maybe his closest NBA friend, Danny Green, he's got to make a decision so Danny Green can go take one of these contracts before they all dry up on him.

Right?

I mean, it's kind of like the musical chairs.

And then somebody really does get left out at the end of this.

Absolutely.

But, Ramona, let's start with Kevin Durant.

His decision to leave Golden State, go to Brooklyn with Kyrie Irving.

You have covered him as closely as anyone at our company in Golden State, certainly in Oklahoma City.

But let me ask you this.

At what point were the Warriors did you start to feel like, if you ever felt that way, that this

partnership doesn't have staying power? I would say at the beginning of this year. And I was out

on maternity leave, so it was kind of weird, right? Like, I was still talking to people, but I wasn't around as much.

But even in text message conversations, you know, people checking in on how the baby was,

like, you could just tell something was going on there.

And they came, I think one of the first games I actually went to when I came back was the game that he got into it with Dremont against the Clippers.

And I remember seeing Dremont afterwards in the hallway, and he acted like nothing happened.

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