It is there, THE record of the summer in the NBA! Since Kevin Durant informed the Nets of his intention to bend the saplings and go elsewhere to see if the basketball climate is more inclined to win a new title, many teams have been on the hunt to recover the MVP 2014. Among them , the Heat. KD even reportedly put Miami at the very top of his list of places he would like to bounce back. The Miami franchise is still very interested today, even if it will take a lot of brainstorming to bring the tarantula back to South Beach.
Will you pick up some Kevin Durant to brighten up your day? Come on, let’s go. Announced by the US media as one of the player’s favorite transfer destinations, the Heat also seemed quite enthusiastic regarding the idea of adding a talent of Durantula’s caliber to their workforce. In an ESPN program held at the Summer League in Las Vegas and concerning the Free Agency, the insider Adrian Wojnarowski maintained his rhetoric that Pat Riley – general manager from Miami – would like to make Kevin Durant his player next season. Problem: the Heat would not be particularly ready to destroy its workforce in depth to secure the services of the boy. This currently goes once morest the pretensions of the Nets, who demand counterparties up to what they consider to be their winger’s level of play. To cite just one example, Brooklyn reportedly asked Minnesota to send Anthony Edwards, Karl-Anthony Towns and several draft picks to make a trade possible. We agree, that’s really a lot. By comparison, that would mean the Heat sending Jimmy Butler, Bam Adebayo and draft picks. A sentence that would be enough to destroy the sports project set up by South Beach in recent years. Of course, Kevin Durant remains Kevin Durant, but the Woj explains that Miami would now seek to bring other teams into the round to lighten the weight of the exchange.
“The Heat have certainly been one of the most determined teams to get Kevin Durant back since he requested his transfer. There have been discussions with the Nets here in Las Vegas. To organize this exchange, Miami and Brooklyn are going to need a third team, and perhaps a fourth. There is no direct exchange possible that they can specially achieve. Bam Adebayo and Ben Simmons cannot be in the same squad due to their contract, so both sides will need to be creative within the league to try and find a way to a deal.
For teams like Miami, the question to ask is: how much should we let go? If we brought in Kevin Durant, would we be a contender? What part of our project might we give away? »
– Adrian Wojnarowski
This is a very interesting point raised by the insider. As things stand, a trade involving only the Heat and the Nets is simply impossible in view of Brooklyn’s claims but also the contractual clauses of certain players mentioned as potential parties to the trade. It will therefore be necessary to find one or more teams wishing to participate in what will undoubtedly be one of the biggest transfers in the history of the league. Get a big Heat player, get Ben Simmons? On paper, quite a few teams might be interested. This would allow the Heat to lighten its share of the trade while allowing the Nets to snoop around in another team’s draft picks, once more potentially more interesting than what Miami has to offer. Damn, what a deal this is anyway. With this information, we grasp all the complexity of things and we understand above all that the saga is still very far from knowing its epilogue.
More information that tends to indicate that we will still hear regarding Kevin Durant for a little while this summer. In any case, the claims of the Nets may be titanic, they do not scare Pat Riley who still wants to bring Durant. All that remains is to summon colleagues from other franchises to discuss it, but it will not be easy.
Source : ESPN
