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Three years in the past yesterday, Kevin Durant altered the panorama of the NBA by agreeing to hitch the Nets. Yesterday, Durant rocked the league once more, requesting a commerce out of Brooklyn — lower than one 12 months after signing a four-year extension with the workforce and simply days after co-star and shut pal Kyrie Irving opted into the ultimate 12 months of his contract with the Nets.
For the third time since 2016, groups are lining up for an opportunity to accumulate Durant and grow to be the favourite to win subsequent 12 months’s championship. After Durant signed with the Warriors in 2016, Golden State received back-to-back titles. Final 12 months, Durant’s toes — in addition to accidents to Irving and James Harden — sabotaged his greatest likelihood to convey a championship to Brooklyn.
The Nets entered this previous season because the title favorites. Then, Irving solidified his fame because the league’s most unreliable teammate. Harden compelled his option to Philadelphia in alternate for the league’s second-most unreliable teammate (Ben Simmons). And the Nets had been embarrassed in a first-round sweep towards the Celtics. Durant, who turns 34 in September, knew his window to convey a championship to Brooklyn had closed.
The Nets (rightfully) sacrificed all the pieces — a promising younger solid, a proficient younger coach and an enviable tradition — for an opportunity to land the perfect participant on this planet. The gamble failed. Durant’s two wholesome seasons with the workforce resulted in a single playoff collection win.
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