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Despite all the negative things Kevin Durant has had to say about Oklahoma City in recent months (looking at you, Wall Street Journal interview), apparently, the decision to leave wasn’t easy.

Durant sat down with Serge Ibaka to talk about his life, his career, and what comes next for Durant in Brooklyn as he works to come back from the torn Achilles he suffered during the NBA Finals in June.

The former Thunder teammates got together on the latest episode of Ibaka’s web-based cooking show, “How Hungry Are You?”, where Ibaka has shown a particular talent for cooking exotic dishes as well as grilling his fellow colleagues in the NBA.

As Ibaka has a snake cooking (more on that later), he asks Durant which decision was more difficult, leaving the Thunder or leaving the Warriors. Without hesitation, Durant said leaving Oklahoma City.

“Oh leaving OKC for sure. I mean I spent eight years there,” Durant said. “I built my family there. You know what I’m saying? I built my family there. My whole family lived out there. I done bought houses out and did everything there. You know what I’m saying? Like grew up in my 20s.”

Durant went on to say that it was hard to leave his teammates, but “figured they’d understand because it’s just business”, and that it took him a while to make a decision because of the support staff throughout the organization.

His answers seem to be somewhat of a departure from the aforementioned interview with the Wall Street Journal that Durant gave earlier this summer in which he said the feeling was “toxic” when he returned to Oklahoma City as a member of the Warriors and that he’d “never be attached to that city again”.

“I eventually wanted to come back to that city and be part of that community and organization, but I don’t trust nobody there. That sh– must have been fake, what they was doing. The organization, the GM, I ain’t talked to none of those people, even had a nice exchange with those people, since I left.”

In addition to reminiscing about the early days of their career in Oklahoma City, Ibaka fed Durant a fried snake (no doubt a nod to the fact that Durant was called a snake for leaving OKC and signing with the Warriors, the team that had just eliminated the Thunder in the 2016 Western Conference Finals).

Durant’s take on the unusual cuisine? “A little dry.”