Teams won't be champing at the bit to extend Kyrie Irving. But some older, capped out teams are in need of his services. johnhollinger takes a look at nine teams — including the Hawks, Heat and Lakers — that could make a move for the shifty point guard.
Alas, demanding a trade and actually getting traded are very different things. No team is obligated to acquire Irving, and the Nets themselves are under no obligation to trade him. They might be more motivated to do so, rather than keep around a player who doesn’t want to be there, but as we saw withThis is particularly true in the case of Irving.
Additionally, the current standoff with the Nets apparently arose because he couldn’t get a contract extension from them. I’m not sure any other teams are champing at the bit to extend Irving either . However, there is a certain type of team — older, capped out, in need of guard help, and generally a little desperate — that cannot be ruled out as a potential Irving pursuer. I count seven of them, plus two other teams that are just interesting enough in the context of an Irving deal to not write them off.
I will emphasize, again, that I think there remains a decent chance that the Nets do nothing and call Irving’s bluff. Nonetheless, let’s humor ourselves by going through this exercise and figuring out what bidders are even possible or reasonable. First, there are four types of teams we can probably rule out, encompassing 20 of the Nets’ 29 potential trade partners:
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