Kevin Durant to Toronto

[brackdan70]

The Raptors are reportedly interested in Kevin Durant. The Suns want a centre and a competitive roster around Devin Booker.

Toronto Receives
Kevin Durant

Phoenix Receives
RJ Barrett
Jakob Poeltl
2027 1st Round Pick (TOR)

Why for Toronto?
The Raptors are on the hunt for a "big fish" and Kevin Durant is certainly the most available big fish. For all the anxiety about timelines and the expense of keeping Pascal Siakam, the Raptors trade for Kevin Durant as he enters his age 37 season on a $54M deal. Alas, you can't deny his talent and his shooting would be a major plus on a shooting deficient Raptors team.

Why for Phoenix?
The Suns get a quality starting big and slashing wing to initiate the retooling around Devin Booker. The future 1st Round Pick helps with that process as well.

I think you would need to change that 2027 pick for the #9 pick in this year's draft.

Barrett, Poetl, #9 and a future protected FRP it's a solid offer for KD.

Barrett hasn't developed like it was expected but he is has some untapped potential yet IMO.

I personally think that’s too much to give.

[Slim Charless]

Durant has stated many times Toronto was his favourite team to watch growing up because of Vince Carter. He's gone to many events here ovo fest, Caribana and many others. I think your trying to spin the same narrative as Chris Broussard about Toronto and Canada.

Now back to the t deal this is a easy yes from Toronto. Keeping Barnes, Ingram, Gradey Dick, 9 plus Quickley isn't bad. Losing Poeltl sucks but if you can nab a Kornet, Lopez or Capela for the MLE your looking like a top 6 seed in tyre East especially with a depleted Celtics and Bucks team.

Was this before of after the fans cheered him tearing his achilles and had to be told to shut up by their own players? Just wanted to know when he said this.

Those weren't fans IMHO bunch of idiots. Look I dislike a bunch if teams, Yankees Florida State, Alabama Crimson Tide, Miami Hurricanes, Toronto Maple Leafs and a few others but cheering when a player is injured especially one that bad is classless. Anyway that's a rabbit hole I am not going to go into I will say those people do not and should not represent this team's fan base.

Here's Durant talking about Toronto https://youtu.be/KxICjrtaa10?si=oDSD-USsykEAN_tf and here's the Vince Carter angle https://youtu.be/mIyxQ4q9aec?si=NBm3HWSadLnM6JFL

I mean it was the ppl in the front row. Like a few feet from him....in other words the rich fans. The fans that likely all have season tickets and likely still have those very same seats. I highly doubt they arent still attending games.

[One_and_Done]

This is unworkable because KD isn't interested in playing in Toronto.

Toronto is a world city. I think it gets underrated. But the whole cheering when his Achilles popped probably isn’t a great memory for him

This has nothing to do with Toronto being a bad city. I'd love to live there myself, although in general players are a demographic that doesn't tend to favour colder cities, or cities outside the US. That's not the issue though.

The issue is that the team would have no prospect whatever of winning a title, so why would KD agree to go there at age 37?