Dive in the NBA: Kevin Durant wants to get out of Brooklyn

Superstar Kevin Durant wants to leave Brooklyn Nets despite long-term contracts. The 33-year-old Forward has already named two desired teams.

The chapter Brooklyn has ended for Kevin Durant. So much has been clear since Thursday when the superstar announces his trade demand from the NETs. Durant moved from the Golden State Warriors to New York in 2019, but the hoped-for sporting success failed to materialize. The Forward completely missed the first year due to an Achilles tendon tear. In the subsequent 2020/21 season, he failed alongside his teammates Kyrie Irving and James Harden-albeit very scarce-in the second playoff round at the later Champion Milwaukee Bucks. Most recently, the NETs were Gesweept in the first round of the Boston Celtics. It was the end of a turbulent season in which Harden left the team again and Irving, who did not want to be vaccinated against the Corona virus, missed the majority of the games.

Now Durants Agent Rich Kleiman is working with Nets managers Sean Marks on a new home for the MVP from 2014. According to reports, the Phoenix Sun and the Miami Heat are reported on the list. However, KD cannot force the NETs into one of these teams. The contract of the two-time champion runs until 2026 and the NETs should choose this from their point of view the most lucrative trade package-no matter who it comes from.

What happens to Kyrie?

And then there is also Kyrie Irving, who also does not see his future in Brooklyn. The day before, however, he had decided not to get out of his contract after attempts to find a sign and trade for the Point Guard had failed. But even the 30-year-old construction player does not necessarily have to start the season at the NETs. With him, too, a trade is conceivable until the start of the season.

So this is an abrupt end of the project that started at the end of 2019, which everyone involved had imagined differently at the time. In the three years together (including playoffs), Durant and Irving in only 58 games stood together on the field with a playoff series won. In view of all the investments that the NETs made, for example to trade for James Harden, this is the same as a disaster for the franchise.