The Brooklyn Nets announced this week that they’ve removed Kevin Durant from the trade market after nearly two months of talks following a meeting he had with the franchise’s key decision makers on Monday.
Durant had expected to be traded to either the Phoenix Suns or Miami Heat, but a trade never materialized.
“Brooklyn was not close to a trade for Kevin Durant,” said Adrian Wojnarowski. “The trade market, I think, for both Kevin Durant and the Nets was not what they all thought it might be.
“Kevin Durant looked not only at the uncertainity of not being able to really control with the trade request where he would go. With four years left on his deal, Brooklyn could trade him anywhere.
“But also the team he had coming back in Brooklyn. Kyrie Irving on board ready to go this season. A rapidly recovering Ben Simmons, who is expected to be ready for the start of the season. And then a healthy Joe Harris. You go down the lineup, this is a very good Nets team.
“I think ultimately all those minds in one room getting together on the fact that Kevin Durant can return and play for these Nets. Begin his first year of his four-year, $198 million deal. I think ultimately it gets back to one thing for Kevin Durant: he loves to play basketball. It’s typically always his focus and everything around it he has typically less energy and less time for.”
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