It had been a few days since a new rumor had emerged on the Kevin Durant file, it is now done. According to Steve Bulpett of Heavy SportsKD is expected to meet with Nets owner Joe Tsai this week to discuss his transfer request. A little timely news, because we were just starting to get bored there.
What do you do when you don’t like a situation at work? Do you take it upon yourself and say nothing? Well know that you are not like Kevin Durant. Unhappy with the way his transfer request is progressing – or rather not progressing – the Nets star has therefore decided to go directly to the boss. In any case, this is what Steve Bulpett reports from Heavy Sportswho says KD will meet Joe Tsai, the owner of the Brooklyn franchise, this week. After having officially expressed his desires elsewhere more than a month ago, the Snake is indeed still on the starting line, and that makes him a little grumpy. It must be said that with four more years to go to reach the end of his contract, Durant is not really in a strong position. As the 29 other franchises have noticed in recent weeks, it is Sean Marks, general manager, who leads the dance and the negotiations: “ Boston? We will have to put more than Jaylen Brown and Derrick White on the table. Miami? Don’t even call us anymore if you’re not ready to let go of Bam Adebayo. utah? Nah nothing I just wanted to wish you good luck for the future. This is pretty much how GM is handling the Nets side file. And like many executives anonymous – to be taken with a lot of tweezers – explain it in Steve Bulpett’s articleit’s probably this habit of saying “no” to everything that gets Kevin drunk, since one by one, the franchises abandon the idea of recovering the double MVP of the Finals:
“I don’t know, I have no idea what’s going to come out of this meeting. There are some things that KD is unhappy with, and I’m not sure that’s all fixed here. But maybe it is. »
– a league official
“I think there are teams that are not very happy with the fact that when they talk to Brooklyn, it gets into the papers. It doesn’t help. I’ve spoken to a few teams who aren’t happy with the rumors coming out around this topic. It’s not a good way to do business. That’s probably why they won’t get anything and they haven’t had a conversation in a while. I don’t think they will get anything with Boston. »
– another anonymous source, within the NBA
Yes, the other important information to remember would therefore be that… we no longer rush to the front door of the Barclays Center to recover Kevin Durant. Since the last rumors, it would therefore seem that the telephone line of Sean Marks has been less busy. Perhaps erroneous according to Bulpett, the information according to which the Celtics would have offered the Nets a package centered around Jaylen Brown therefore played neither in favor of Brooklyn, nor in that of Boston. At the same time, it is also necessary to manage the Kyrie file, which would leave for the blow against nada next summer. The question that can then arise is: could this meeting between the superstar and the owner be the start of a reconciliation? We will avoid speculating too much on this, but it is a possibility that is difficult to put aside. Bulpett’s sources say, for example, that they don’t see Kevin Durant purposely not playing to show his displeasure: ” He’s going to play hard like he does all the time. I know KD, and he’s not just going to sit on the bench or something. He’s not that kind of guy. No way. He won’t do something like that. “Within the NBA executives, we therefore believe more and more in the scenario of the start of the season with Kyrie, Kevin and Ben Simmons.
The more the days pass, the more the rumors tend to indicate that no trade will be set up between the Nets and any other franchise. Was it all a bluff from the start? Is Sean Marks too demanding? Are the offers really up to the player concerned? Many questions and too few answers to anticipate what will happen. It remains to be seen if the meeting between Kevin Durant and Joe Tsai will move the lines.
Source texte : Bleacher Report / Heavy Sports