The news that Kevin Durant reached an agreement with the Brooklyn Nets for the star small forward to withdraw his request to be traded to another team, while ending speculation about the two-time NBA champion’s future, does not end interest in what this team will do in the remainder of the offseason.
Now, instead of thinking about how to rebuild the team with the departure of KD, the responsibility of the General Manager Sean Marks is to see how to build a competitive team around his best player, and in that tenor the situation of the All Star, Kyrie Irving remains pending.
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Kevin Durant stays with the Nets, what about Kyrie Irving?
During the past months, there has been much speculation about the strong interest of the Los Angeles Lakers to acquire Irving, including LeBron Jamesown work to convince this transaction to take place and return to share the locker room with Kyrie, with whom he played from 2014 to 2017 with the Cleveland Cavaliers and won the only Larry O’Brien Trophy in the history of this franchise.
However, should this deal come to fruition, it is widely likely that Russell Westbrook would be part of the negotiation and in that case another reunion of teammates from the past could be gestated.
The Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook Era with the Oklahoma City Thunder
It’s impossible to forget that Westbrook and Durant formed a dynamic duo in the Oklahoma City Thunder‘s best era from 2008 to 2016, reaching an NBA Finals together that they lost in 2012 to LeBron James’ Miami Heat.
However, when Durant left Oklahoma City for the Golden State Warriors for the 2016-2017 season, the relationship between these two players broke down completely, they even stopped talking to each other because of what the point guard felt as a betrayal.
Time has passed and more than a lustrum later life has taken several turns for both of them, will destiny bring them back together?
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