{"id":46732,"date":"2022-08-16T06:22:41","date_gmt":"2022-08-16T06:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/latest-on-kevin-durant-hoops-rumors-2\/"},"modified":"2022-08-16T06:22:41","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T06:22:41","slug":"latest-on-kevin-durant-hoops-rumors-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/latest-on-kevin-durant-hoops-rumors-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest On Kevin Durant |  Hoops Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Kevin Durant<\/strong>&#8216;s situation with the <strong>nets<\/strong> Has reached a stalemate, Brian Windhorst of ESPN reports (hat tip to RealGM).  On Monday&#8217;s episode of Get Up, Windhorst said the Nets haven&#8217;t lowered their asking price.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThere hasn&#8217;t been an urgency in trade talks,\u201d<\/em> he said. <em>\u201cThere hasn&#8217;t been a change in strategy by the Brooklyn Nets.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Other teams aren&#8217;t backing down, either, as they refuse to give up the assets the Nets want.  Meanwhile, Durant is stuck since he signed a long-term extension.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cFirst off, the Nets do not have leverage in trade talks with other teams.  They are not giving them the offers that they want,\u201d<\/em> Windhorst said. <em>\u201cThey see no reason to increase them.  So, they&#8217;re not making any progress there.  Kevin Durant clearly does not have leverage with the Brooklyn Nets.  He is asking for things: &#8216;Get me traded.  Fire the coach.  Fire the GM.&#8217;  He is being told no.  So, when you have denied leverage, you have a stalemate.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We have more Durant-related news:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Durant labeled the notion of him retiring is \u201ccomical,\u201d he <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KDTrey5\/status\/1559296095842275328\">tweeted<\/a>. <em>\u201cI know most people will believe unnamed sources over me but if it&#8217;s anyone out there that&#8217;ll listen, I don&#8217;t plan on retiring anytime soon,\u201d<\/em> he wrote.<\/li>\n<li>The tweet was a response to a Marc Stein Substack post in which Stein declared that a well-connected executive insisted last month that Durant was more apt to retire than play again for the Nets.  Stein downplayed that comment but added that it&#8217;s quite possible Durant may refuse to report to training camp.  According to Stein, many people around the league believe that if Durant hasn&#8217;t been traded when camps open, he&#8217;ll continue to cause a \u201cruckus\u201d behind the scenes in order to force the Nets to lower their trade demands.<\/li>\n<li>Durant&#8217;s former teammate with the Warriors, <strong>Andr\u00e9 Iguodala<\/strong>believes the two-time Finals MVP should withdraw his trade request, according to BasketNews.com. <em>\u201cI think he should stay in Brooklyn, it&#8217;s such a big market, it&#8217;s good for the game and just figure out how to make it work like everybody grow up and make it work,\u201d<\/em> Iguodala stated on the Point Forward podcast. <em>\u201cThat&#8217;s how I feel about the situation.\u201d<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Durant&#8216;s situation with the nets Has reached a stalemate, Brian Windhorst of ESPN reports (hat tip to RealGM). On Monday&#8217;s episode of Get Up, Windhorst said the Nets haven&#8217;t lowered their asking price. \u201cThere hasn&#8217;t been an urgency in trade talks,\u201d he said. \u201cThere hasn&#8217;t been a change in strategy by the Brooklyn Nets.\u201d &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/latest-on-kevin-durant-hoops-rumors-2\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Latest On Kevin Durant |  Hoops Rumors<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":14523,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/kevin-durant-rumors-leverage-raptors-bridges-suns\/","url_meta":{"origin":46732,"position":0},"title":"Kevin Durant Rumors: Leverage, Raptors, Bridges, Suns","date":"July 14, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Appearing on NBA Today on Wednesday (video link), ESPN's Brian Windhorst said the nets have been \u201creally turned off\u201d by the offers they've received for Kevin Durant thus far. \u201cIf some of the trade packages that have been floated to me are true, I agree with them, I think that\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Sports&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":41555,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/kevin-durant-rumors-ultimatum-harrington-nash-sixers-celtics\/","url_meta":{"origin":46732,"position":1},"title":"Kevin Durant Rumors: Ultimatum, Harrington, Nash, Sixers, Celtics","date":"August 10, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"The ultimatum that Kevin Durant presented to nets owner Joe Tsai \u2013 trade me or fire Sean Marks and Steve Nash \u2013 hasn't had its intended effect so far, Brian Windhorst said during an appearance on ESPN's Get Up on Wednesday (video link). 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