Draymond Green was candid with Kevin Durant during the regular season that they wouldn't really begin to need him until the playoffs.

Durant famously joined a Golden State Warriors team that had won 73 games during the previous regular season but blew a 3-1 lead in The Finals.

"I actually told him earlier in the year. He might have got frustrated one time. I said, 'Hey, my friend. To be honest with you, we don't really need you that much in the regular season,'" Green recalled saying to Durant. "'But you know, when those NBA Finals come around, we're really going to need you to play big for us.' He was like, 'Ah, all right.'

"He's been playing big for us, so I guess I'm a genius."

Durant hit the Warriors' game-winning shot in Game 3 and he's now scored at least 25 points in all eight of his Finals games.