Brooklyn Nets

In its annual poll of NBA Insiders, ESPN reports that an overwhelming percentage of NBA experts polled — 83.3 percent — believe that Kevin Durant will still be a Brooklyn Net on Opening Night two months from this week. And no surprise, the same poll puts the Nets atop the list of candidates for Team Turmoil and predicts the Nets…

How bad was the London meeting between Kevin Durant and Joe Tsai on Saturday? It would appear not good since the headline out of the talks was that KD had issued an ultimatum: trade me or fire your GM and head coach. But Ramona Shelburne on ESPN’s NBA Today has suggested that things may not be as they seem, that…

Kevin Durant‘s four-year contract extension with the Nets, which he signed last year, went into effect the day after he made his trade request and includes advance payment language that required the team to cut him a hefty pay check on July 1, Marc Stein writes in his latest Substack story. As we noted earlier today in our list of…

This is what you fight for. When you first begin the journey, you hope to do something that’s meaningful. You study, you practice, and you prepare for the big show so you and your colleagues can make names for yourselves. It’s never an easy ride and there are plenty of setbacks you’ll experience. However, the goal is the goal and…

Will he or won’t he sit out the beginning of the 2022-23 season if he hasn’t been traded by the opening of camp? That may be the big question when looking at the Kevin Durant situation … and the Nets future. Now comes Marc Stein who reports that the day after KD requested a trade, he picked up a check…