Nets forward Kevin Durant addressed the possibility of his suiting up if the 2019/20 season resumes in a conversation with Lil Wayne’s Young Money Radio on Tuesday, as NetsDaily recounted. However, KD didn’t offer many details about his potential return timeline. “It is what it is man. Everybody (is) waiting on me to come back,” Durant said. “But I’ll be back when it’s time.”
In 2019, Durant inked a four-year, $164MM maximum free agent deal with Brooklyn in a sign-and-trade with the Warriors for point guard D’Angelo Russell. Durant continues to recover from an Achilles tear suffered in the 2019 NBA Finals that has kept him off the floor for the Nets’ entire 2019/20 season thus far.
There’s more out of the Atlantic Division:
- For the Raptors, balancing the team’s young core and aging veterans may become especially tricky during the 2020 offseason, according to John Hollinger and Blake Murphy of The Athletic. Among the team’s top six players, ascendant young point guard Fred VanVleet, 35-year-old center Marc Gasol and 30-year-old big man Serge Ibaka will all be unrestricted free agents at season’s end.
- Due to stricter state and city guidelines for reopening businesses in New York than many other teams’ home cities, the Nets appear unlikely to return anytime soon to their practice facility, the HSS Training Center in Brooklyn’s Sunset Park, per NetsDaily’s Net Income and Anthony Puccio. 22 of the 30 NBA teams hope to have their practice facilities open by Monday.
- The strength of Celtics point guard Kemba Walker‘s left knee and the ascent of newly-minted All-Star Jayson Tatum are among the big questions facing the C’s if the 2019/20 season does indeed resume, according to Chris Forsberg of NBC Sports Boston. Forsberg notes that injuries have been a big story in the Celtics’ paused season, saying that the team’s top seven players were healthy together for just eight of the team’s 64 games before play was suspended in March. With a 43-21 record, Boston sits at the No. 3 seed in the East.
Brooklyn should trade have a 3 way trade
Jarrett Allen to the Spurs
Derrick White to Lakers
Kyle Kuzma to the Nets
End of the day who k owns what Durant is going to comeback like, either way even if he comes back strong I doubt he want to play minutes at the 4 having to be more physical and test his body any harder than it needs to be. Kuzma would add another really good scorer to that team and with DeAndre Jordan on the roster he can come in and start at centre and replace Allen’s defence and rebounding.
Kyrie LeVert Durant Kuzma Jordan
With bench players
Dinwiddie Harris Prince
Plus some guys on the vets minimum
Maybe Kyle OQuinn, Markieff Morris, Dion Waiters, Wilson Chandler.
That’s a solid playoff team even without Durant being the man before his injury
Kuzma’s not a really good scorer averages 12 ppg behind two allstars now your just moving him to a different team with two allstars and the Nets give up there good young starting center who averages two less points and is a way better defender….. and you don’t have to play KD at the 4 Jordan and Allen can rotate through those spots or you try and find someone in free agency like Bertans someone who could stretch the floor and take the heat off of KD and Kyrie sometimes….. sorry for the paragraph but that trade makes no sense
Sorry for the two comments phone glitched
Kuzma is stuck playing PF behind AD. This moves gives him a opportunity to start on another team.
Nets have Jordan who can easily replace Allen but at PF they don’t really have much depth. Kuzma playing with Kyrie LeVert and Durant would thrive and I think he suits that locker room.
Bertans is going to sign for like 15mil a season and the Nets don’t have much cap space. Kuzma takes the heat off Kyrie and Durant a little and doesn’t have to be amazing at defence cause he has Durant and Jordan next to him who are solid defenders.
Nets don’t really need to pay 20mil+ (10 for Jordan and 10mil + for Allen) when one player can play they role and they can have a vet on the minimum play back up.
Jordan can’t play the 4
That’s not what he’s saying. They are saying Jordan can replace Allen at center but they don’t have someone at powerforward. … the proposed deal would have the nets trading a center (a position of depth) for a power forward in Kuzma (a position of need)
“ Everyone is waiting on me to come back”? Seriously? I haven’t given it on thought Mr. Fragile Ego. Get a grip
I do! Who doesn’t wanna see one of the greats back on the court? SMH!
If Kemba Walker’s knee hasn’t healed with all this inactivity, it probably won’t. Big problem for the Celts if that’s the case. They don’t even have a great backup point guard in Wanamaker if Walker goes down again. Maybe Waters gets his chance.
Funny how BB articles are most often about a 2020 offseason that is NOT what is likely to be next!– 19/20 isn’t over yet.
Hollinger + the Athletic Raptor reporter combined to sound smart on the topic but avoided Toronto’s most pressing call, signing Gasol or Ibaka, and did not propose a limit for matching an FVV offer.
Signing FVV to a big 1-year as a compromise means they would still have to deal with his cap hold when bidding (for Giannis) in 2021.
I hope Giannis extends with the Bucks soon to deservedly crush the hopes of those who would steal him. They’re all over the country.