Kevin Durant Trade Situation Likely Frozen Until His Position Becomes More Clear

[RealGM Wiretap]

The Brooklyn Nets have added a number of supporting pieces in Royce O'Neale, T.J. Warren while re-signing Nic Claxton, Patty Mills and Kessler Edwards, which could make their supporting cast around Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving should they remain on the team next season.

"Looking at the menu of options, the Nets are kind of like 'Kyrie, Kevin, take a look here,'" said Brian Windhorst.

"What I will say is nobody knows what Kevin Durant is thinking right now. His communication with teammates and others in the league has been sparse. I don't even think the Nets have a 100 percent understanding of why Kevin asked for a trade. He spoke to the owner in Joe Tsai and gave a reason, but I'm not sure the Nets are 100 percent on the understanding of it. 

"I think the next step in this, barring a team's change of heart to meet the Nets' price, which I don't see at this point on the calendar, I think we're going to have to wait to hear from Kevin Durant about how open he is to running it back with the Nets. And here we go as everybody breaks for summer, sitting and waiting for that to happen."

Windhorst was also asked about a theory from Dave McMenamin that Durant could have requested a trade from the Nets in order to get Irving traded.

"I think there's a reaction in the league to try to fill in the gaps they don't understand. There's not a full understanding of Kevin Durant's motives here. There may be a terrifically great reason why Durant made this choice, but it hasn't been articulated anywhere. If there was a market for Kyrie Irving, that would affect the Nets' reasoning more than anything."

Windhorst also detailed that Durant and Irving were in communication during Irving's contract negotiations with the Nets in June.

Via Brian Windhorst/ESPN

[YourGM99]

KD to the Nets: Trade me.

Nets on KD: His position is not clear..

[mg]

From the outside it certainly seems the Nets have enough talent on paper to win a title.

Makes me think maybe KD isn't interested in playing basketball anymore.

[MegaK]

Yo KD a bitch ! Can't wait to get roasted on Twitter by one of his fake accounts bro.

[Pickled Prunes]

That was a lot of words to say, "Nothing new to report."

[SkynMan]

From the outside it certainly seems the Nets have enough talent on paper to win a title.

Makes me think maybe KD isn't interested in playing basketball anymore.

Lmao no the Nets do not have enough to win a title. Royce O'Neal Tj Warren ain't bringing you to the NBA finals bruh lmaoooo

[B8RcDeMktfxC]

Translation: Joe Tsai doesn't speak parseltongue.

[Phystic]

From the outside it certainly seems the Nets have enough talent on paper to win a title.

Makes me think maybe KD isn't interested in playing basketball anymore.

Or maybe winning isn't the only factor. Or maybe nets have made it clear they don't want Kyrie there so KD doesn't want to be there.

Pretty presumptuous to jump to KD doesn't want to play

[TheCage4]

KD is not worth this headache.

[Swift21]

I could tell just off the headline this nonsense came from Windhorst.

[Dennis 37]

I believe he is a forward.

[gigantes]

KD to the Nets: Trade me.

Nets on KD: His position is not clear..

More like--

KD: here's my loopy, half-baked Twitter thought of the day.

Nets: uh... are we supposed to respond to this..?

Sean Marks: Hey Kevin, what's up?

KD: *crickets*

[haste10176]

From the outside it certainly seems the Nets have enough talent on paper to win a title.

Makes me think maybe KD isn't interested in playing basketball anymore.

Or maybe winning isn't the only factor. Or maybe nets have made it clear they don't want Kyrie there so KD doesn't want to be there.

Pretty presumptuous to jump to KD doesn't want to play

He wants to go to Suns or Heat and make sure they keep all there star players haha he wants to win.. Noone wants kyrie except the desperate lakers because he is a culuture killer and KD cant lead anything

[Darthlukey]

From the outside it certainly seems the Nets have enough talent on paper to win a title.

Makes me think maybe KD isn't interested in playing basketball anymore.

Or maybe winning isn't the only factor. Or maybe nets have made it clear they don't want Kyrie there so KD doesn't want to be there.

Pretty presumptuous to jump to KD doesn't want to play

He wants to go to Suns or Heat and make sure they keep all there star players haha he wants to win.. Noone wants kyrie except the desperate lakers because he is a culuture killer and KD cant lead anything

By attaching the criteria KD has to the receiving team its actually made it much less likely he gets traded at all. All while still looking for the path of least resistance to a title. What is wrong with 2 of the 3 best players of this generation

[Phystic]

Or maybe winning isn't the only factor. Or maybe nets have made it clear they don't want Kyrie there so KD doesn't want to be there.

Pretty presumptuous to jump to KD doesn't want to play

He wants to go to Suns or Heat and make sure they keep all there star players haha he wants to win.. Noone wants kyrie except the desperate lakers because he is a culuture killer and KD cant lead anything

By attaching the criteria KD has to the receiving team its actually made it much less likely he gets traded at all. All while still looking for the path of least resistance to a title. What is wrong with 2 of the 3 best players of this generation

Has KD actually made anything public himself? I mean there's tons of reports about this and that but has he or his agent actually come out with any of these demands? I haven't paid close enough attention.

If he hasn't then Not sure KD has done anything wrong. He requested a trade to his FO and said these teams are preferred and that's it. If the team leaked the info to media then it's their own fault.

Of course if KD or his agent have infact done it publicly then ya he's got the fault

[cheese318]

That was a lot of words to say, "Nothing new to report."

[Darthlukey]

He wants to go to Suns or Heat and make sure they keep all there star players haha he wants to win.. Noone wants kyrie except the desperate lakers because he is a culuture killer and KD cant lead anything

By attaching the criteria KD has to the receiving team its actually made it much less likely he gets traded at all. All while still looking for the path of least resistance to a title. What is wrong with 2 of the 3 best players of this generation

Has KD actually made anything public himself? I mean there's tons of reports about this and that but has he or his agent actually come out with any of these demands? I haven't paid close enough attention.

If he hasn't then Not sure KD has done anything wrong. He requested a trade to his FO and said these teams are preferred and that's it. If the team leaked the info to media then it's their own fault.

Of course if KD or his agent have infact done it publicly then ya he's got the fault

Of course he is at fault. Requesting a trade publicly would be much worse. But he has requested with 4 years left on his deal after making his bed with the nets

[Phystic]

By attaching the criteria KD has to the receiving team its actually made it much less likely he gets traded at all. All while still looking for the path of least resistance to a title. What is wrong with 2 of the 3 best players of this generation

Has KD actually made anything public himself? I mean there's tons of reports about this and that but has he or his agent actually come out with any of these demands? I haven't paid close enough attention.

If he hasn't then Not sure KD has done anything wrong. He requested a trade to his FO and said these teams are preferred and that's it. If the team leaked the info to media then it's their own fault.

Of course if KD or his agent have infact done it publicly then ya he's got the fault

Of course he is at fault. Requesting a trade publicly would be much worse. But he has requested with 4 years left on his deal after making his bed with the nets

So he privately requested a trade and said these teams would be preferred. Has not in any way, unless I've missed, come out and refused to play for either the nets or any other team. And yet somehow he is being blamed for perceived low offers the Nets are receiving or cornering them into only dealing with certain teams

Again, if he has come out and said any of this public then I agree he's to blame. But if he has kept it private and it's leaked then that's not his fault. If he's not happy he has the right to ask to be traded. He hasn't demanded anything

[Darthlukey]

Has KD actually made anything public himself? I mean there's tons of reports about this and that but has he or his agent actually come out with any of these demands? I haven't paid close enough attention.

If he hasn't then Not sure KD has done anything wrong. He requested a trade to his FO and said these teams are preferred and that's it. If the team leaked the info to media then it's their own fault.

Of course if KD or his agent have infact done it publicly then ya he's got the fault

Of course he is at fault. Requesting a trade publicly would be much worse. But he has requested with 4 years left on his deal after making his bed with the nets

So he privately requested a trade and said these teams would be preferred. Has not in any way, unless I've missed, come out and refused to play for either the nets or any other team. And yet somehow he is being blamed for perceived low offers the Nets are receiving or cornering them into only dealing with certain teams

Again, if he has come out and said any of this public then I agree he's to blame. But if he has kept it private and it's leaked then that's not his fault. If he's not happy he has the right to ask to be traded. He hasn't demanded anything

The fact that he wants out at all, despite the manner in which it may or may not have been delivered, is appalling. He and kyrie built that team for better or worse (the nets could have said no, but that's hardly the point at this stage). KD **** that team and now he wants to leave. Live with the consequences

[Phystic]

Of course he is at fault. Requesting a trade publicly would be much worse. But he has requested with 4 years left on his deal after making his bed with the nets

So he privately requested a trade and said these teams would be preferred. Has not in any way, unless I've missed, come out and refused to play for either the nets or any other team. And yet somehow he is being blamed for perceived low offers the Nets are receiving or cornering them into only dealing with certain teams

Again, if he has come out and said any of this public then I agree he's to blame. But if he has kept it private and it's leaked then that's not his fault. If he's not happy he has the right to ask to be traded. He hasn't demanded anything

The fact that he wants out at all, despite the manner in which it may or may not have been delivered, is appalling. He and kyrie built that team for better or worse (the nets could have said no, but that's hardly the point at this stage). KD **** that team and now he wants to leave. Live with the consequences

How did KD **** them exactly? He signed in FA didn't he? So didn't cost the Nets any assets. And they will get something when he's traded.

If anyone screwed the Nets it was Harden. Nets gave up Allen, Lavert and a ton of picks for a dude that got hurt, then refused to get in shape, then wanted out. Obviously jury still out on the return nets got in all that.

I just don't see anything wrong with what KD is doing..he hasn't tanked his value by going public, and hasn't refused to play anywhere including for the Nets.

Why is it ok for teams to constantly try to trade players like Myles Turner but not ok for a player to ask to be traded?