They can’t afford to tank, having given all their high pick potential to the Rockets for the next five years. Nets want at least one All-Star back for Durant. ![]() You have accept that Durant’s camp will have a lot of say in where he goes because teams won’t give up great assets to acquire an immediate malcontent if he gets shipped to a loser. Possible landing spots must be Finals contenders after replacing Durant with the outgoing player(s). After he gave ultimatum to owner Joe Tsai, and Tsai responded by backing the other side (coach/GM), it seems that Durant’s happy days in Brooklyn are long over. Can the Nets get a young All-Star back for Durant? Still, let’s include Philly in the discussion of the best possible players the Nets could acquire in return for Kevin Durant. Why would Durant want to re-join a fading Harden? Plus, I question the ‘Durant sees Philly as a good landing spot’ intel, considering Durant was clearly frustrated with Harden’s play last year in Brooklyn, leading to the Harden trade to Philly in the first place. With no draft picks and a requirement to match salaries almost 100%, Philly seems very unlikely to truly enter the Kevin Durant mix. They are currently just four million below the now-implemented hard cap. So, acquiring Durant simply for salaries would require a really close match. Tucker this summer as well as the bi-annual exception on Danuel House Jr., they have hard-capped themselves this year not to cross the Tax Apron of just under $157 million. Considering picks can only be traded through 2029, and there must be two years between picks in trades, the Sixers are completely out of tradable picks. ![]() And THEN, they’ve promised their first-available-tradable post-OKC pick to. They’ve already tied up their 2023 pick in a swap with (cough) the Nets, then traded a lottery-protected 2025 to OKC that, due to protections, ties up their picks till up to 2027. Hilariously, the Sixers - ‘added’ to Durant’s list recently, according to Ian Begley - have literally NO first round picks available to trade! None. That’s still a lot of picks, but definitely not the full boat of seven unless the team getting Durant can acquire and include more than their own picks.įor the record, none of the Phoenix Suns, Toronto Raptors, Boston Celtics, Miami Heat or the recently-included Philadelphia 76ers have any extra picks besides their own to throw into a trade.Īnd among those teams, only the Suns and Raptors even have all their own picks going forward. ![]() The most they can take from any one team is four clean firsts, beginning in 2023, and one swap OR three clean firsts, beginning in 2024, and three swaps. Nets draft pick conundrum complicates Kevin Durant deal After they traded everything for James Harden without fully recouping it when they re-traded him, they simply don’t have enough of their own picks in the right years to do the even-year swaps. So it’s up to the Nets to get the most they can, without burning any more bridges with superstar players along the way.Įarlier this week, I detailed how the Nets simply don’t have the resources on hand to even accept the ‘four picks and three swaps’ the national media thinks they are demanding. The Nets are right to ask for multiple All-Stars and lots of unprotected picks, but that’s never going to happen. Durant is a top-five player in the league. Today, we have part two of breaking down the Brooklyn Nets stated requirements - at least one All-Star AND a bevy of first round picks - in return for perennial MVP candidate, and two-time Finals MVP, Kevin Durant.īefore you read any further, let’s agree on one big point: the Nets will never get equal value for Kevin Durant in any trade.
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