KD explains snubbing Wizards: 'I really just didn’t want to play at home'

Before any talk of Golden State came up, all the talk around Kevin Durant centered around a potential homecoming for the Washington D.C. native.

But when it came time for Durant to choose his next destination, the Washington Wizards couldn't even command an audience with Durant, who took free agency pitch meetings with six clubs this summer.

As Durant explained to Tim Bontemps and Adam Kilgore of the Washington Post, he wanted to move forward rather than go back.

"I don’t want to open up anything in the past, but I really just didn’t want to play at home. It was nothing about the fans. Being at home, I was so happy with that part of my life - playing at home, being in front of friends, hanging with friends and family every day. That was a part of my life that has come and gone," Durant said.

The four-time scoring champ fielded offers from San Antonio, Miami, Boston, OKC, and Los Angeles before settling on the Warriors. Washington's efforts to hire Durant's former coaches and to clear cap room didn't make a difference.

"I was like, I’m trying to build a second part of my life as a man living in a different part of the country, just trying to do different things. I did everything I was supposed to do in the D.C.-Maryland-Virginia area, I felt. Now it’s time to do something new. I didn’t want to come back. That’s just my thought process behind it. It had nothing to do with basketball, the fans, the city," Durant said.

"It was just like, ‘All right, that part of my life I’ve conquered already. What’s next?'"