Is KD coming to the Suns?

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Cap wrote:
Thu Jun 30, 2022 3:42 pm
If the Nets don’t want Ayton and we won’t give them Booker or Paul, it will take almost every other player we have under contract to match Durant’s salary.

Paul + Booker + Durant + Ayton + 11 FAs on vet min deals… is that a contender? Ugh.
It is if some good vets want to sign for the vet min. Plus we have the TPMLE.
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Flagrant Fowl wrote:
Thu Jun 30, 2022 2:58 pm
Drewsprocket wrote:
Thu Jun 30, 2022 2:58 pm
What leverage does KD have in where he gets traded to?
Being a top 5 player in the league?
Yeah. I’m wondering if he has something in his contract or not. There has to be some implicit threat that dictates what happens. If I’m the nets I’d want a young future first all nba team player.

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Getting really worried now

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Weird. DraftKings now has us at -225 to land KD, but I don’t see how it happens with the Nets not being a viable destination for DA.

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Gambo says the Suns are not the only team Durant would accept--he mainly just wants out of Brooklyn.
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JeremyG wrote:
Thu Jun 30, 2022 4:31 pm
Gambo says the Suns are not the only team Durant would accept--he mainly just wants out of Brooklyn.
pretty sure gambo would have no idea. His two sources are Sarver and McD.

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Indy wrote:
Thu Jun 30, 2022 4:32 pm
JeremyG wrote:
Thu Jun 30, 2022 4:31 pm
Gambo says the Suns are not the only team Durant would accept--he mainly just wants out of Brooklyn.
pretty sure gambo would have no idea. His two sources are Sarver and McD.
Lol he's got sources all over the place. Kidd and Ainge are two big ones off the top of my head.
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JeremyG wrote:
Thu Jun 30, 2022 4:33 pm
Indy wrote:
Thu Jun 30, 2022 4:32 pm
JeremyG wrote:
Thu Jun 30, 2022 4:31 pm
Gambo says the Suns are not the only team Durant would accept--he mainly just wants out of Brooklyn.
pretty sure gambo would have no idea. His two sources are Sarver and McD.
Lol he's got sources all over the place. Kidd and Ainge are two big ones off the top of my head.
A guy who calls himself FLEX from Jersey has been ahead of Gambo on most Suns news.
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Indy wrote:
Thu Jun 30, 2022 4:32 pm
JeremyG wrote:
Thu Jun 30, 2022 4:31 pm
Gambo says the Suns are not the only team Durant would accept--he mainly just wants out of Brooklyn.
pretty sure gambo would have no idea. His two sources are Sarver and McD.
Didn’t he say suns had no shot at KD earlier in the week?

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Flagrant Fowl wrote:
Thu Jun 30, 2022 4:36 pm
JeremyG wrote:
Thu Jun 30, 2022 4:33 pm
Indy wrote:
Thu Jun 30, 2022 4:32 pm
JeremyG wrote:
Thu Jun 30, 2022 4:31 pm
Gambo says the Suns are not the only team Durant would accept--he mainly just wants out of Brooklyn.
pretty sure gambo would have no idea. His two sources are Sarver and McD.
Lol he's got sources all over the place. Kidd and Ainge are two big ones off the top of my head.
A guy who calls himself FLEX from Jersey has been ahead of Gambo on most Suns news.
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He figured it out

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I still lost respect for his analysis after that TV segment. His job priority is to know this stuff and it was hours after the KD news broke.
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I wish we could know more about the Nets realistic asking price for KD.

They don't want Ayton, but how do they feel about guys rumored to be available like John Collins, OG Anunoby, DeAngelo Russell, etc.?
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I think we know how they feel about Russell. :lol:
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haha @ Bender

I'm a little on the 'nervous' side about Durant .. what mountain of assets will we give up ... and how will he hold up @ 34 over the contract term
on the flip side will it open us up even more to vets coming in cheap?

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Here's a list of guys the Nets cannot acquire if they have Ben Simmons on their roster.

Devin Booker
Jayson Tatum
Bam Adebayo
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander
Luka Doncic
Jamal Murray
Michael Porter Jr. (lol)
Andrew Wiggins
Joel Embiid
Karl Anthony-Towns
Donovan Mitchell
DeAaron Fox
Trae Young

So back to my earlier post, who's the "star" player they can realistically get in return for KD? And by realistically I mean, the team is willing to put together a package that totally reshapes their roster and KD is happy to go there.

I'm pretty sure the short answer is; there aren't any. So now it's a game of chicken.

The Nets either have to take an Ayton-centric deal or the pupu platter of sign and trade stuff in a three-team deal.
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Jaylen Brown

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specialsauce wrote:
Thu Jun 30, 2022 6:16 pm
Jaylen Brown
Yeah but if you are Brooklyn and KD has said where he *wants* to go and you decide to trade him to a division rival that just swept you out of the playoffs in the 1st round?

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Westbrook and THT. At least according to my coworkers..

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