Kevin Durant ’s application for a trade to leave the team is definitely the hottest news in the free market. This sudden incident has disrupted the plans of many teams this summer, and in less than a day, more than Half of the teams in the league asked the Nets about Durant's quotation. With Durant applying to leave the team, Kyrie Irving and other Nets players naturally no longer have the need to stay on the team, and they will all be put on the shelf by the Nets.
Earlier today, Utah Jazz and Minnesota Timberwolves reached a big 1-for-10 deal. With the transaction, the Nets' asking price for Durant will also increase. , after all, a three-time DPOY and a three-time All-Star dare to sell like this. As the league's super giant, Kevin Durant naturally shouldn't be lower than this. According to the famous reporter Spears, he revealed in the live broadcast that the Brooklyn Nets’ current asking price for Kevin Durant is: a young or future All-Star player, multiple first-round draft picks, and first-round picks. A rotation swap plus a starting-caliber player.
Such an exaggerated offer has scared off many teams, but there are still some teams that still want to get Durant. According to US media reports, the Los Angeles Lakers are planning a big deal. If successful, the most blockbuster deal in NBA history is about to happen: the Lakers want to acquire Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving. The coefficients of the two players were included in his squad.
Kevin Durant has submitted a trade application. In this case, Kyrie Irving will most likely not be retained. According to sources, Durant and Irving seem to have reached a consensus that they want to work together. Leaving the Nets means not being able to play together. The Nets are currently facing a situation of disintegration. They have to put all their players on the shelf until Kevin Durant leaves the team to officially start their road to reconstruction.
There is news that in order to acquire Durant and Irving, the Lakers , except LeBron James , other players can be used as bargaining chips to obtain Durant, including Davis and Wei Less . According to experts, in order to acquire Durant, the Lakers may package Davis, Horton Tucker, Kendrick Nunn, rookie Christie, and first-round picks in 2027 and 2029 plus some second-round picks. Show was sent to the Nets, and Kevin Durant was acquired from the Nets.
From this point of view, the Lakers are full of sincerity, but the Nets may not necessarily agree. What they want is a young or future All-Star player, and Davis is no longer young, and he is often injured. Suffering from illness, this major flaw is likely to be the direct reason for the failure of this transaction.
According to a report by famous journalist Brian Windhorst, although Kyrie Irving has exercised his player option for next season, he has been paying attention to the Lakers since he agreed to the Nets' sign-and-trade option, although the current Lakers have not There is nothing that can satisfy the Nets. Windhorst then followed up the report and said: "Although there have been some problems between Irving and James , they have both put aside their prejudices against each other because Irving wants to become a member of the Lakers, and James also hopes that Irving can become a Laker." A member of ”
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