Kevin Durant Not Consulted On Nets Firing Of Adam Harrington

[RealGM Wiretap]

Kevin Durant's issues with the Brooklyn Nets run deeper than his demand that the team fire Sean Marks and Steve Nash, sources told Josh Kosman and Brian Lewis of the New York Post.

For example, Durant was not consulted when the team fired assistant coach and director of player development Adam Harrington this offseason.

“There are simple things that erode a relationship. You fired someone he was close to and didn’t have a conversation about it,” the source told the Post.

Durant may have also been disappointed that Joseph Tsai did not do more in lobbying for a relaxation of vaccine mandates so Kyrie Irving could play in home games. Irving was not able to play at home until March 24, with Tsai hiring a lobbyist on February 8.

Durant is "likely" to rejoin the team should no trade occur, according to the source.  

 

Via Josh Kosman & Brian Lewis

[Darthlukey]

Oh man, KD, you seem to be allocating blame in all the wrong places. Have you considering at all blaming the guy who has missed bulk time the past 3 seasons at all?

[MegaK]

NBA team culture is so toxic. Imagine busting your butt learning the intricacies of running a billion dollar business after spending loads of time in school and then working your way up the ladder to be constantly second guessed by some pampered athlete who only cares about the current season and what the team can do for them while getting paid hundreds of millions of dollars. It's got to be so frustrating being in that kind of environment for any front office / coaching staff.

[ishoy123]

NBA team culture is so toxic. Imagine busting your butt learning the intricacies of running a billion dollar business after spending loads of time in school and then working your way up the ladder to be constantly second guessed by some pampered athlete who only cares about the current season and what the team can do for them while getting paid hundreds of millions of dollars. It's got to be so frustrating being in that kind of environment for any front office / coaching staff.

That's how the real world works

[kalel123]

NBA team culture is so toxic. Imagine busting your butt learning the intricacies of running a billion dollar business after spending loads of time in school and then working your way up the ladder to be constantly second guessed by some pampered athlete who only cares about the current season and what the team can do for them while getting paid hundreds of millions of dollars. It's got to be so frustrating being in that kind of environment for any front office / coaching staff.

That's how the real world works

Wrong. That's how NBA works, which is far distanced from how real world works.

[danvato]

and why the f--- should Nets "consult" KD on decisions about rando assistant coaches? Cause he happens to take vacations together like that weird congressman and his 'aide'....

f--- KD.

[CanesHeatFins]

and why the f--- should Nets "consult" KD on decisions about rando assistant coaches? Cause he happens to take vacations together like that weird congressman and his 'aide'....

f--- KD.

Keeping your #1 asset informed should be the base minimum for any well ran organization, especially if you're firing someone close to him. The only reason the Nets didn't consult with KD, is because they felt emboldened by that ridiculous 4yr deal that KD signed. If KD was on a 1 or 2yr deal they would've been more transparent and respectful about business communication.

[dougthonus]

NBA team culture is so toxic. Imagine busting your butt learning the intricacies of running a billion dollar business after spending loads of time in school and then working your way up the ladder to be constantly second guessed by some pampered athlete who only cares about the current season and what the team can do for them while getting paid hundreds of millions of dollars. It's got to be so frustrating being in that kind of environment for any front office / coaching staff.

That's how the real world works

Wrong. That's how NBA works, which is far distanced from how real world works.

That is how the real world works too.

The people who swing all the revenue in their industry hold all the power. You're making Mission Impossible 10 or whatever they are on, you think the guy who owns the movie studio holds more power or Tom Cruise? What is Mission Impossible without Tom Cruise, absolutely nothing.

You got a salesman at any firm who owns your most prized accounts, and they are with him because of the personal relationship with the salesman (a quite common scenario), who holds the power? The CEO or the Salesman? In the real world, it's the salesman.

When you swing all of the money, you hold the power, that's how the real world works across all industries. It's just that in most industries the revenue is not swung by a concentrated enough group of individual contributors and it would take a union of contributors acting in concert to accomplish the same thing (which was also successful in the past).

[JBreezeNY]

That's how the real world works

Wrong. That's how NBA works, which is far distanced from how real world works.

That is how the real world works too.

The people who swing all the revenue in their industry hold all the power. You're making Mission Impossible 10 or whatever they are on, you think the guy who owns the movie studio holds more power or Tom Cruise? What is Mission Impossible without Tom Cruise, absolutely nothing.

You got a salesman at any firm who owns your most prized accounts, and they are with him because of the personal relationship with the salesman (a quite common scenario), who holds the power? The CEO or the Salesman? In the real world, it's the salesman.

When you swing all of the money, you hold the power, that's how the real world works across all industries. It's just that in most industries the revenue is not swung by a concentrated enough group of individual contributors and it would take a union of contributors acting in concert to accomplish the same thing (which was also successful in the past).

I’d love to see what rebuttal the poster makes because this is a great point.

[brettski]

Posts like this seem to make it clear where the leaks are coming from.

[kalel123]

That's how the real world works

Wrong. That's how NBA works, which is far distanced from how real world works.

That is how the real world works too.

The people who swing all the revenue in their industry hold all the power. You're making Mission Impossible 10 or whatever they are on, you think the guy who owns the movie studio holds more power or Tom Cruise? What is Mission Impossible without Tom Cruise, absolutely nothing.

You got a salesman at any firm who owns your most prized accounts, and they are with him because of the personal relationship with the salesman (a quite common scenario), who holds the power? The CEO or the Salesman? In the real world, it's the salesman.

When you swing all of the money, you hold the power, that's how the real world works across all industries. It's just that in most industries the revenue is not swung by a concentrated enough group of individual contributors and it would take a union of contributors acting in concert to accomplish the same thing (which was also successful in the past).

It's curious that first thing you bring up as "real world" example is the movie industry with big-name actors when it's a lot closer to NBA than actual real world.

Your last paragraph is closer to how real world works but at that point, you are just trying to fit square peg into a round hole to make your argument. The very fact that power/money is so concentrated on select individuals, which you seem to recognize, is what differentiates an industry like NBA in the first place.

[dougthonus]

It's curious that first thing you bring up as "real world" example is the movie industry with big-name actors when it's a lot closer to NBA than actual real world.

Your last paragraph is closer to how real world works but at that point, you are just trying to fit square peg into a round hole to make your argument. The very fact that power/money is so concentrated on select individuals, which you seem to recognize, is what differentiates an industry like NBA in the first place.

Have you ever worked anywhere that workers aren't commodity / replaceable cogs?

Key people in ALL organizations are treated differently and hold more power than the guy you can replace in 2 seconds if he quits. There is usually not such a large discrepancy because a key software developer is rarely as important as Kevin Durant is to the Nets, but absolutely people are treated relative to the power they hold in an organization in the real world.

[kalel123]

It's curious that first thing you bring up as "real world" example is the movie industry with big-name actors when it's a lot closer to NBA than actual real world.

Your last paragraph is closer to how real world works but at that point, you are just trying to fit square peg into a round hole to make your argument. The very fact that power/money is so concentrated on select individuals, which you seem to recognize, is what differentiates an industry like NBA in the first place.

Have you ever worked anywhere that workers aren't commodity / replaceable cogs?

Key people in ALL organizations are treated differently and hold more power than the guy you can replace in 2 seconds if he quits. There is usually not such a large discrepancy because a key software developer is rarely as important as Kevin Durant is to the Nets, but absolutely people are treated relative to the power they hold in an organization in the real world.

I think you are actually agreeing with me? What I'm saying is that such a discrepancy is what separates and differentiates NBA (or others like it) from rest of real world industry? Which is why things don't work in NBA like they do in real world.

[dougthonus]

I think you are actually agreeing with me? What I'm saying is that such a discrepancy is what separates and differentiates NBA (or others like it) from rest of real world industry? Which is why things don't work in NBA like they do in real world.

I would guess we're just arguing semantics.