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or not he was going to stay, and he's going to stay. So
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whatever whatever we want to call it at this point. Is this the end?
Is it actually the end? So the NETS released a statement that Kevin
Durant's agent, Rich Climate, along with Kevin Durant, and then Joe Si
and general manager Sean Marks met with Kevin Durant and I think it was Los
Angeles on Monday and Kevin Durant agreed to stay with the franchise and that in
the end they're committed to building a winner in Brooklyn. This comes weeks after,
weeks after Kevin Durant request I think over a month ago at this point.
I remember when it was when Kevin Durant requested a trade. It's hysterical
because I think this is, you know, this is going to be a
win in the sense for teams and their governors to show that stars don't necessarily
have the ultimate finals. Say, kevindur had four years left on his deal.
He named the Miami Heat and the Suns that we know of his teams
he wanted to play for, and Boston was kind of floating around the ether,
and if Janalen Brown was actually available, it makes you think that Kevin
Durant actually would have wanted to go to Boston. Otherwise, why else give
him give that up? But this is pretty much proof that the Nets drawing
that hard line in the sand worked with Kevin Durant having four years left on
his contract. I don't think that this was some sort of revelation on Kevin
Durant's part where they're all of a sudden aligned on the same vision. He
was pissed that they fired an assistant coach that he was close with. He
was either pissed at Kyrie or pissed about how they handled the Kyrie Irving situation.
We know that Kyrie Irving is committed to the franchise because he had no
other options. And so the two immediate things that spring to mind here for
me is if the Nets stayed together, where are they in the MBA the
NBA title race? And two like, is actually over? Like are there
any other issues that are sort of looming in the backdrop of of all of
this, And so first looking at the Nets, like the implications for the
other teams around the NBA Phoenix, I don't think this hurts them too much
in the sense that they're still just going to be ridiculously good. Where a
team like Toronto or even like, if you were gonna argue if New Orleans
wanted to get involved, they need Kevin Durant to get to that title contender
level. Phoenix is there, Boston is still there. I don't know how
you feel about Miami. I feel like they're kind of in that Tier two
or Tier three contender category. And so this is a blow if you thought
you were really involved. I don't even know who. It hurts really the
most because what team really believed that they had a chance at Kevin Durant.
The asking price was absolutely out of this world. They they wanted picks,
they wanted like an all star caliber prospect, and it never felt like,
you know, the Raptors weren't giving up Scotty Barnes. If the Celtics really
did include Jawn Brown, that's a big name, but the pel And said
they didn't want to include Brandon Ingram. We had the report from Shams on
Monday that the Grizzlies were willing to include picks put not Desmond Baye or jam
Jackson Junr. And so these teams like, we're clearly half assing it,
and we have comments, I'll get to them in a couple of minutes or
seconds. We're clearly half asking the offers because they either thought that the next
we're gonna have to move Kevin durantt for less than he was worth. This
is someone entering his age thirty fourth season, very mercurial injury history now and
then two like or they were just gonna keep him. And so I don't
actually think any team was invested in the idea of getting Kevin Durant, whereas
like if the Knicks don't get Donovan Mitchell, I think that's a genuine blow.
I don't think this actually impacts the rest of any other teams weren't banking
on him that much, And even Phoenix once they signed DeAndre into that contract,
it made it hard to include him in three team scenarios. Really,
Galaxy brings shit here, though. Kevin Durant, maybe he wants to go
to Phoenix so badly he sends his trade demand now only to reservice it back
in January one. DeAndre eight in his trade eligible. Just keep that in
the back of your minds. But I don't really think any team was banking
on getting Kevin Durant. When you look at the net specifically, and as
Lance Lance Robertson says in the chat, the nets only have thirteen nationally televised
games that don't include the Bland NBA TV outlet. That stuff is valuable.
It can change, It certainly will change. Maybe Kevin Durant went through this
entire uh you know, trade demand process just so he could have off on
Christmas. He wanted to doing sure that the nets weren't part of the Christmas
Day matten ae unless unless they were, I kind of forgot the NBA Christmas
Day schedule already. But anyway, so that that stuff is valuable, I
don't think that's like a huge concern, Jodan Freeman said. I just find
it hard to believe that Kadi, Nash and Marks are all going to be
fine and dandy when you look at the potential other distractions that Kyrie and Simmons
seemed to carry. And so this is I guess, even before we get
into what the nets might actually look like, this is going to be part
of it. Like this isn't over. Kyrie Irian's on an expiring contract.
There's always stuff going on with him, whether it's the it's the vaccine and
stuff, or whether he's going mia in the aftermath of what happened at the
Capitol in January, or he's you know, shirking his media responsibilities with the
team that are collectively bargained with the MBA. Just for anyone who cares about
that, if they think that Kyrie shouldn't have to talk to the to the
media, and the fact that the extension talks were so contentious with him ending
not in an extension. This isn't over maybe, like, does this make
it more likely to me that Kyrie Irving stays long term too? Yes,
because him and Kevin Durant still remain super tight. But this isn't a team
that's just gonna be drama free. All of a sudden, Kevin Durant wanted
Shawn Marks and Steve Nash fired. That's that was the report, and it's
not something that he actually rebuked, and maybe he will during media day.
I won't believe him, but maybe Hill rebuke that reporting. So this is
so very very absurdly or measurably combustible, and it just wouldn't shock me if
it all sort of goes belly up in the middle of the season now,
And like, Kyrie Irving's probably the player I watched more than anyone, because
he's someone who might agitate to get out if he's playing well, and all
of a sudden it seems like he holds trade value. And the other thing
too with this team is Ben Simmons. As Jan had mentioned in his comment,
like it's not even just I don't want to get into Ben Simmons' mental
health other than I'm just going to believe someone who said that they were having
problems coping, Like my default is, I'm going to believe that. But
his back, He's just coming off of back surgery and he just missed an
entire season. What does he look like? There are still questions with this
team. The fit. I've maintained this all along was if he or a
little bit more iffier than people who thought it was just very plug and play.
Yeah, Simmons brings a lot of what the Nets needed defensively, but
he prefers and is better operating on ball. On offense, Kevin Durant and
Kyrie Irving can work off the ball. But if your solution to like your
team is let's put Kevin Rant and Kyrie i Ring off the ball a bunch
more, I don't necessarily think that's going to be tenable. And you do
have to worry about his injury history now too. Is how much is he
going to be available? What does he look like? Does he have sort
of the same downhill burst? Is he as good at just sort of flying
around the perimeter? On defense? Could this back get your stuff crop up
again? What does the rest of your defense look like? I know that
you traded for Royce O'Neill, and I kind of feel like we've veered too
far away from reality with Royce only at this point, Like he was not
good last season, But you don't need Royce O'Neill to be what he was
in Utah two or three years ago, especially if you have Ben Simmons there.
But Royce O'Neill and Ben Simmons or your Nick Klaxton, like those are
your plus defenders. I guess if t J. Warren is healthy, he
showed a lot of on ball defensive progress when he was in Indiana. Joe
Harris again, if he's healthy, he's always been like a little bit underrated.
I do find it hard to believe that this team is going to be
like sort of good defensively. Still, maybe they have a crack at a
league average. But Tom And said in the chatil I didn't think Mitchell to
Brooklyn was likely because Simmons is on the roster. But I wonder if this
has momentum new Mitchell deal getting done. I would agree that if you're like
the Heat or the Raptors, and you were in on the Kevin Durant sweepstakes
and now you want to pivot to Donovan Mitchell. That certainly could speed it
up for sure, and it might give the Knicks more competing or like they
might get the Jazz more leverage because they're not just negotiating with the Knicks now,
if other teams decide to creep into this. We know the Hornets and
the Wizards were the only teams that really mentioned in that. So I do
agree Jonah, that that could speed up the Dono Mitchell stuff with the next
specifically, though they just still feel like sort of unfinished and maybe they're willing
to there's other moves that they can make. They have some salary ballast,
but I just I would struggle to see them as I think a lot of
people are going to think that they're like these title heavyweights now and they're absolutely
a title contender, but we've just seen with Kevin Durant, with Kyrie,
with Ben Simmons time and again, like their stuff is going to crop up,
whether it's injuries, miss time for different reasons, or just the the
theatrics of this, of the trade request, of what Kyrie was doing trying
to find assigned to trade for his extension. This actually the the biggest loser
of all, this might be the Lakers just because the rust plus two picks
for Kyrie scenarios off the table, and I have to imagine that like that
was probably always overplayed just because the Lakers were actually refusing to do that.
It's just something I find very hard to believe. And this leads me to
believe that just like the Nets were actually steadfast and no, we're not going
to give Kyrie up for that trade package. I just think we're at the
point where we can't even come close to say that this is that, this
is over. I think Kevin Durant could become just as disenchanted by the middle
of the season. This is someone who tried to request a trade with four
years left on his deal. If things don't go if things don't go according
to plan once the season starts, if they get off to sort of a
slow beginning out of the gate, does all this drama crop up again.
I would argue that like everyone's kind of on the hot seat here, with
the exception of Joe Side just because he con like owns the entire team,
but like Steve Nash, his job security is going to be talked about.
If the Nets don't get off to a good start. I mean, this
is just like like, this is like a season long of Remember Dwight Howard
wanted stan Van Gundy to be fired and there was that ultra awkward press conference.
Like now this is like just Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving coming back to
the coach that I'm assuming they both wanted to get fired, and but he's
not going to be fired. It doesn't seem like or does this make it
more likely that it gets fired. I would say the fact that Kevin Durant
is coming back makes me think that a coaching change, maybe not before the
season, would be more likely. But Steve Nash was mentioned by name in
the announcement I believe, and if not at least by by some of the
reports. So I like, I just think this team is going to be
so fascinating because of how combustible that it remains. And we've spent so much
time talking about, well, where could Katie go? How is this Kyrie
situation going to end? We haven't really thought about the basketball fit of this
roster, and maybe we didn't assign enough value to the idea that the Nett
still wanted to compete conceptually, even if they traded Kevin Durant, and they
made it like you know, as soon as like the Royce O'Neil trade where
they gave up a first round pick was basically be an in tandem with the
with the Kevin Durant trade demand. And so this was a team that was
always very clearly thinking in the now, and they are, Look, they
have their their highest end outcome. It's it's a championship ceiling. This is
not like a stretch where if you're trying to think of the best case outcome
for the Hornets or the Wizards or the Knicks, like they have a championship
ceiling, but their floor can also just be ripped out from under them at
any point. And like we're talking about someone in Kevin Durant who over the
past half decade has played in fewer playoff in regular season games than than Joel
Embiid. Like that's an actual concern. And I think though, when you
look at like the landscape of the rest of the East too, you're like
you have Milwaukee, you have Boston. I do wonder if this and you
have Philly, Like does this impact the way that Miami's thinking right now at
all, or maybe it's maybe Toronto now that we know that they're out of
the Kevin Durant sweepstakes. Are they a team at cam pivot to Donovan Mitchell.
Are they a team that thinks that they need to level up harder than
they did over the off season when they got out of report Junior brought back
Chris Bouche and Daddy is Young. I do imagine now though that this Kevin
Durant trade is off the table, they'll sign their second round draft pick,
Christian Coloco. We've been winning on that for a while. Like Kevin Durant
returning to Brooklyn, I think he firmly puts them in like the I'm not
gonna put them as high as Boston in Milwaukee. I just need to see
a season of full health and like cohesion. But when you're talking like Philly,
like that area, Philly, Miami, Toronto, like they're right there,
And so that makes the East like instantly more fascinating. And if you
were a team that were hoping to craft the top six, if you're a
Charlotte, if you're the Knicks, it becomes a lot harder now to do
so the Wizards as well. If we think that Brooklyn and kd are going
to to stay like stay together long term, and I just I still remain
unconvinced that that happens because of how like this whole thing went about, and
you would to compare it to this, which I just, I mean,
he tweeted. In the end, Kevin Durant and the Nets played out in
a similar way to Kobe and the Lakers in two thousand and seven, a
tumultuous summer after a trade request, talks with teams, no deal, and
ultimately a decision to return to the franchise. That's just like, we don't
have to make everything about Kobe as my first instinct. And then the other
thing is there was a deal in place. If I'm not mistaken, I
would have send Kobe to Detroit like this wasn't There was a trade lined up
and they had to talk Kevin Durant out of this. This feels more so
driven by Kevin Durant realizing that he is four years left on his deal,
his leverage was minimal, and that he was in a situation that he probably
would have needed to have held out of into training camp if we really wanted
to force their hand, assuming they would have been forced at all. And
it also feels like his requesting that Sean Marks and Steve Nash both be fired,
which was just always unreasonable because forget about Steve Nash. Like, yeah,
coaches, they could be I don't want to dismiss coaches like this,
but coaches are easy to replace. They are the thing. They are the
assets of a team that teams are most likely to change, especially when their
ca doubt. It's easier to change the coach than the players, basically,
especially when you're talking about superstars. But it was an unreasonable request because you're
asking for both and Sean Marks. We haven't seen the exact terms, but
he agreed to an extension at the start of this offseason, so it felt
like that was Kevin Durant's last ditch effort to get out of Brooklyn and to
really force the hands of everyone involved here. And since that failed, now
you run it back because you do have a chance to actually win a title,
and you look, you're still with Kyrie, which we've yet to see
any real conflicting reporting that Kevin Durant all of a sudden does not want to
play with Kyrie anymore. I would be understandable to me, just given how
Kyrie kind of submarine their season last year. But Kyrie is still there.
This team is still like on paper, it could be as good as anybody
in the NBA. And I think if you're Kevin Durant and you wanted to
go to Miami or Phoenix, yeah, those teams with you probably would have
been better than this team right now. Definitely in Phoenix Miami, depending on
if you're trading Kyle Lowry and Tyr Hero and your entire draft that that was
felt a little shallow, but you also probably to recognize that, like the
Nets didn't want any of those offers, and so this sort of feels like
not so much a resolution or a reconciliation as a settlement. And to me
it could be fleeting, Like I want, I don't want to fast forward
because I enjoy warm weather, but like, let's fast forward in December or
January and see where see where this team is at, even if they're higher
up in the standings. Kevin Durant is just such an ambiguous person. Aside
from knowing that we or we claim that we know that he loves to hoop,
and the fact that he's just an all time great the way he's got
about things, especially here. It just wouldn't shock me if this trade demand
comes back in the middle of the season, or maybe there's a like it's
easier to agree to a mutual parting of the ways next year. And I
do really think that Kyrie Irving is of right now, like that expiring contract
looms over all of this. I don't know, like trade. I don't
expect trade rumors to continue to sort of bubble to the surface involving him,
but those are certainly on the table if he's going to free agency, and
he doesn't want to resign with the Nets because of how extension talks went the
first time around. But he's also someone who, like Kevin Durant, seems
to recognize that, well, this is different. Kevin Durant didn't need to
rehab his value. I think he realized he didn't have just the leverage because
of the length of his deal and maybe even how teams viewed his age and
weren't willing to give up you know, A. I mean, he didn't
care about He didn't seem like he wanted to go to Toronto, but Toronto
wasn't willing to include Scotty Barnes or Memphis being like not wanting to include Desmond
Bade. It seems like he came to that realization, and then Kyrie sort
of came to the same one, realizing he didn't have a market because of
what's sort of transpired in Brooklyn, specifically last season when he wasn't available full
time. When he goes m I A and when like the Nets are just
absolutely roasted by the Celtics in the playoffs, he needs to rehab his value
or image however you want to frame it, and like that incentive is like
maybe good for the Nets, and we like, I don't I don't particularly
enjoy Kyrie as a person at this point, but he's a fantastic basketball player.
And so this team having that big three in place, if Ben Simmons
is healthy, like that is, does Ben Simmons all of a sudden become
like the single biggest X factor in the NBA because we know like what Kyrie
and Katie are going to be when they're on the court. There's still that
just level of anonymity to Ben Simmons's game where it's because he needs the ball
so much. Can we even envision him be used more as a screener in
this system, I think the hope of him shooting ever is out the window.
But well, they run lineups where it's Ben Simmons and four shooters and
maybe you get Ben Simmons in the post more just really trying to push on
the break, adding that element into the nets, or just driving their offense
and having Kevin Rant and Kyrie play off the ball a little bit more.
There's so many permutations with this team, and they're still like when you look
at the offensive well of talent, Kevin Rant, Kyrie, Ben Simmons is
a passer, a healthy Joe Harris, Royce, O'Neil can, it's Seth
Curry, we know can uncork them from the Patty Meals, Cam Thomas human
bucket. And then t J. Warren just like if TJ. Warren's healthy.
But I'm using the word if so many times in this I think Harris
the ankle stuff should be fine, but Ben Simmons is back. The injuries
that have cropped up with Kevin Durant in the past, Nick Klaxton has never
really been healthy for an entire season, like and now TJ. Warren coming
back from that serious you know, costing basically two seasons of basketball there are
just there's so much uncertainty still tethered to a team that's just like a contender
on paper. And so we've had this conversation here before talking about the team
that has like the widest range of outcomes. I think all of a sudden
that it's the Nets, because originally we were just assuming that Kevin Durant was
gonna get traded, and then Kyrie would get traded and they would either try
and exist in the middle or actually begin to rebuild. The fact that they
are not now and they're just there with Kde Kyrie and Ben Simmons and the
rest of this roster. They're either the best They could be the best team
in the league. They could win the title. They could also be like
a playing team again just due to injuries or like a mid season trade demand.
This team is going to be like probably annoying. So they'll be fun
to watch on the court, but I'm wondering how much of the focus will
be paid to that, especially early on, and I don't think it's unfair.
I do believe we get to a point where we try to pull focus
too much from what's happening on the Court, and even this podcast about Kevin
Durants staying with the Nets, a lot of it's been devoted to the fact
that he's staying at all. But this is a situation that kind of warrants
it because of like, it wasn't just the trade demand, it was the
Kyrie irving and the way those contract extensions went so poorly. It was the
Nets themselves very brazenly letting this ship leak through different media outlets that painted dem
is like trying to seize or regain control of their organization and that they were
answering to some like higher level of morality to instill the team culture that they
squandered when they apparently signed Katie and Kyrie, And like that was also always
bonkers because the Nets made this decision to turn the keys of their franchise over
in the first place. And that's also why I will be shocked. I
will be absolutely floored if this ends well or ends as currently constituted. Like
just the fact that you had the contentious extension talks with Kyrie, Kevin Durant
requested a trade, Kevin Durant wanted Steve Nash and Shawn Marks to get fired
and then the nets were letting this stuff leak about Kyrie and kad. You
had Josih tweeting about how he was committed to the execs, to the front
office regime, to Steve Nash basically definitely Sean Marks, Maybe not so much
Steve Nash after the report comes out that Kevin Durant wants both of them fired.
How does every how does every layer of that drama like come back?
There's so many elements there that are just at the point of no return.
Steve Nash knowing those two players who wanted him the first or I shouldn't.
I don't want to assign this to Kyrie, but Kyrie and Katy apparently wanted
Steve's in the first place. Now of a sudden, Katie didn't. Sean
Marks knows Kevin Durant didn't want him there. Kevin Durrett and Kyrieery certainly know
what the team was probably letting lead to the media about their meetings or their
interactions or how they were trying to portrait portray them. Excuse me. And
then there's like just by the way, moving in the backdrop, Oh,
when's Ben Simmons gonna play? Like is he even gonna be ready for the
start of the season. We haven't heard too many updates about that, so
I'm I'm like, this team, to me is going to be interesting on
so many levels for what they could do on the court, but there's still
the off court element there, and I think early on it's gonna warrant a
focus since all this stuff there's I just feel like there's a zero chance that
it's all resolved and that everything is hunky joy like even go away from Kevin
Durant. Let's just say he and Sean Marks and Steve Nasha now cool.
Do we really think that this is gonna end well for the organization in Kyrie
Irving is he almos sud I'm just gonna want to stay long term maybe,
I guess if they're offering the full max and he knows that Kevin Durant is
going to be there. But there's just been a there's just dimensions, Like
they're not even levels, they're dimensions. There are different realities to everything that's
been going on here. Like I'm just I still can't wrap my head around
the fact that the Nets basically told Kyrie to go find a better place and
dare him to opt out, only to see him opt in. And now
he's just back there, and we're supposed to believe that he's committed and that
the team is fine. Kevin Durant demands a trade, demands the two most
important non player basketball people in the organization, like they get fired. Oh,
but he's just coming back, and both of those guys are are still
there. You have Joe Sigh tweeting about how he's committed to Sean Marks in
the face of reports that Katie wanted him fired. This is just so combustible.
There's no way this was hashed out in a meeting or a tech thread
before that meeting. There's no way we're done with this. This is going
to be a circus, and deservingly so. This isn't gonna be a situation
where I come out and say we need to talk about the basketball element of
this more. Maybe we get to a point of that during season. But
like when you go into media day, when you go into these you know,
shoot arounds, your pre game availability in the locker room, post game
availability, if things go wrong, the first sign of adversity for this team,
this is all going to be asked about, not about what was but
Oh, are you considering requesting and trade again? Oh, where's this team?
Too far gone? And you have to ask that question because this is
just such an ass backwards way of what's happening, Like we're reverse engineering the
Nets at this point, and I if you believe that everything's actually fine,
then yeah, I think you have to take the Nets serious. Is probably
one of the foremost contenders, at least within their best case outcome. I'm
still gonna trust Milwaukee and Boston more in the East, specifically out west.
I'm gonna like the Nuggets more. I'm gonna like the Clippers more. I'm
gonna like the Warriors more. I'm gonna like the Sun's more. But they're
in that like top six to eight contender range immediately if you believe that Kevin
Rant and Kyrie Irving is staying and everyone's healthy, including Ben Simmons. Whether
you should believe that is on you, But for now, I guess our
nightmare is over. I will say this to sort of wrap up, and
if there's anyone who's actually still watching and has questions, feel free to throw
them into the chat and we can talk about different things related to this.
I'm not like entirely convinced. This is the last Wee've heard about this in
the off season. Like I'll just I'm more of the believe it when I
see it type person. And I'm not sure that I expected Kevin Durant to
be traded at this point. My prediction was he would end up in Phoenix.
That was clearly wrong as time went on. I think it was clear
that the Nets really seemed like they were prepared to let this get awkward.
But let's just see how this does leading into training camp. Let's see if
they actually are able to like get through an entire season like this, because
otherwise I just I can envision it. I do not think I will certainly
say this team will look drastically different by two twenty three, two twenty four
season. If you're asking me whether they'll look drastically different after the twenty twenty
three trade deadlines in the middle of next season, I'd still probably just bet
on that. I remain unconvinced on what the Nets and Kadi at this point
are trying to sell, But I don't think you can doubt the basketball upside
here. It is. It is championship level. You do need Ben Simmons
to be healthy. This is not Kevin Durant, Kyrie riving alone or not
getting the nets out of the East. That's just that's just not happening.
H J. T. McCusker says, the Kadi and Zion dream is over.
Look. All I'm saying is yes, in theory, that's what they're
saying visa via this announcement. I'm just not I don't think the Kadi to
Anyone dream is over. I'm I don't think this is the last we've heard
of the Kevin Durant trade. Man. That's not It's obviously not sourced.
It's more of a gut feeling. There's too much that's happened for me to
think that this is just that this is again Peche Keen, that we're just
gonna move on from here. So I think, and I'm going to bet
if I had to bet, and we can come back to that and see
if I was wrong, if I had to bet, And don't even want
to say it's whether Kevin Durant is still there, but if this roster,
if these three stars are still on the team, were like, let's just
let's take the over under on Sean Marks Steve Nash, Kyrie Irving, Ben
Simmons, and Kevin Durant all being with the Nets past the twenty twenty three
deadline. And let's set the over under at one point five. I'm gonna
take the over. I'm gonna I think I'm gonna take the over there I
mean or the under. How should I frame this? Let's say the amount
of people that could be moved or jettison is one point five. I'll take
the over on that. It feels like at least two of those people won't
be with the Nets, even in like the semi long term or the short
term, however you want to phrase it. So but at least we can
escape this. I guess for now we can at least plan on escaping this.
I do think if Kevin Durant really wanted off on Christmas, there was
probably an easier way to go about it. And now everythink focus is on
Donovan Mitchell. I am curious to know, though, whether we see other
transactions or rumors pick up John Collins all of a sudden available again. We
know he was mentioned any Kevin Durant package from SHAMS, but that was someone
who was It seemed like a four conclusion he was gonna be traded leading into
the draft, and then at least after the draft, then he wasn't.
Then the Kevin Durant trade request comes in and all of these other transactions get
held up. And also like I think now we're going to see other like
free agency transactions picked up. Like do I think Colin Sexon that we'll see
that get a resolution. He's still floating around the restricted free agency market,
so we should see that resolve sometime in the short term. I would think
Dennis Shrewders still floating around out there. That's someone that I could very easily
see landing with the Lakers who are apparently interested in him again, go figure,
I guess you know, run it back. Why not it worked out
so well the first time, except that it didn't. They're just in on
options now if you're the Lakers, because you can't get Kyrie Irving. But
I think that doesn't for me here If there are no other questions, this
was a lot of fun. Kevin Durrant is back in Brooklyn. If this
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I leave with the shout Out club one, the only, the legendary,
would never demand a trade because he's still committed to the grind. Frank Nilkina