Kings PA announcer Scott Moak shares his side of Kevin Durant incident

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Before the current global coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, "Infection Control" had a completely different meaning in NBA.

Back on Jan. 5, 2019, when Kevin Durant was a member of the Warriors, the term was a topic of debate during a game against the Kings at Golden 1 Center in Sacramento.

Durant sustained a cut on his left forearm, and as a team doctor was bandaging him up, Kings' in-arena PA announcer Scott Moak could be heard announcing "Timeout for infection control."

The look on Durant's face when he heard that was "What did he just say?" He immediately went over and talked to Moak.

Durant was asked about the incident after the game and said he had never heard the term "Infection control" before and stated that he had a good relationship with Moak.

On the latest episode of the Purple Talk podcast, Moak was asked about the encounter with Durant.

"So I, I don't know, for 10 years, would announce it that exact way, 'Timeout for infectious control,' and [the Kings' audio engineer] would play "Keep Bleeding" by Leona Lewis ... you know, he would have all these fun songs that he would play that would correspond with that moment," Moak told NBC Sports California's James Ham. "So, we did that, I said that and yeah, I looked over and I saw Kevin Durant give me the side-eye and walked over and asked me, 'What did you say?' and I told him and I said, 'Why? You don't like that?' And he goes, 'No, I don't like it.' And I was like, 'I don't control these things. I don't get to choose.' And he kind of laughed at that and walked back on the floor."

A few plays later, Moak had to use the term again, and that got a different reaction out of Durant.

"Ironically ... it wasn't but a couple plays, sequences later that De'Aaron [Fox] gets popped in the side of the face," Moak said. "He has blood either from him or someone else on his face. Same exact thing happened and I said the same exact thing. Kevin Durant was on the bench at the time. They had taken him out. He stands up and he gives me the point, like 'Yeah, buddy, alright, I see you. You do it both ways.' He thought I was ribbing him or something and I, of course, wasn't, but yes then it goes to where he says, 'Me and that guy have a great relationship,' which I got a lot of great comments about. I didn't realize I had a great relationship with Kevin Durant, but look, I will take it. I will take a great relationship with Kevin Durant and I hope he's doing better today and hope he's getting better obviously from a playability perspective.

Durant, of course, is no longer a member of the Warriors. He's in Brooklyn rehabbing from a surgically repaired right Achilles tendon.

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On March 17, Durant revealed to The Athletic that he was one of four Nets players to test positive for the coronavirus, which is plaguing the world.

Moak also noted that he expects the NBA to change the name of the timeout in light of the recent pandemic.

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