Here we go again!
Hours before the 2022 NBA Draft Thursday night, The Athletic’s Shams Charania reported that Kevin Durant “is monitoring the Brooklyn Nets’ situation and considering options with his future.”
Sources: Kevin Durant is monitoring the Brooklyn Nets’ situation and considering options with his future.
This now opens the path for Kyrie Irving to proceed on finding a new home via opt-in and trade.
— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) June 23, 2022
Only a few minutes after that story dropped, so did a list of teams Kyrie would be willing to be traded to. ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski reported Thursday that Irving would want the Nets to pursue sign-and-trades with multiple teams, including the Los Angeles Lakers, Los Angeles Clippers and New York Knicks:
ESPN Sources: If Kyrie Irving can’t reach an agreement to stay with Brooklyn, he has a list of teams he’d like them to consider on sign-and-trades, including Lakers, Clippers, Knicks, Heat, Mavs and 76ers. None of those teams have cap space to sign him without Nets’ help.
— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) June 23, 2022
The Brooklyn Nets point guard has yet to make a decision as to whether he will stay put this offseason, but his long list of teams he’d be interested in joining pretty much spells the end of things for him in Brooklyn. Or he’s just trying to get that contract extension.
If he does go, expect Durant to try to get the hell out of Brooklyn too.
What a mess.
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