Nets owner Joe Tsai ‘lost belief’ in Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving

While the Kevin Durant-Kyrie Irving era is coming to a disappointing end, Brooklyn Nets owner Joe Tsai stopped believing in the experiment.

NBA insider Brian Windhorst of ESPN reports that Tsai, “lost his belief that this could work.” Windhorst even inferred that Tsai and company feel a breath of relief following Durant’s trade request.

“They lost the billionaire, and that’s Joe Tsai. He lost his belief that this could work. He attempted through Sean Marks the General Manager to re-negotiate not just the contract of Kyrie Irving… The last straw to me was when Kyrie said, ‘see you in the fall.’ That was sort of a declaration of, ‘alright I’m going to give you one more year, you’re going to get one more year.’ I think Durant saw the writing on the wall too… I actually think there’s is an immense sense of relief across that river in Brooklyn.”