There were six weeks in the summer of 2021 that Kevin Durant, Kyrie Irving and James Harden appeared committed to each other on the Brooklyn Nets. All three received offers for maximum contract extensions, and once Durant signed his that August, general manager Sean Marks declared, 'I feel very confident that first day of training camp, we'll be looking at those three, in particular, being signed, sealed and delivered.'
to seek a sign-and-trade deal, only the rest of the league was also ill-prepared to make a considerable investment into Irving, and the Los Angeles Lakers did not have the assets to make a swap worthwhile for the Nets.
The franchise's unwillingness to gift Irving $200 million for services not rendered had the undesired consequence of offending Durant as well.,"Clearly, Brooklyn has been hesitant to do a longterm deal with Irving, but they also run the risk of alienating Kevin Durant and perhaps unfastening him from his commitment to wanting to be in Brooklyn if Kyrie Irving were to leave.
In the days and hours before 2022 free agency, Irving picked up his $37 million option to play for the Nets this season, as his preferred alternatives were less lucrative, and Durant submitted his own trade request. As the league's calendar turned to the 2022-23 campaign,As one insider sympathetic to Durant noted,"Kyrie sabotaged everything," but Durant is reacting more to the effects than the cause, and he now views the Nets as unsalvageable.
When a worthwhile trade never materialized for Durant, at least from Brooklyn's perspective, attention turned to convincing him to rescind his request. After delivering an ultimatum — grant his wishes or fire both Marks and head coach Steve Nash — Durant reluctantly obliged, rejoining the team for training camp.
"My whole thing was, I want everybody to be held accountable for their habits as a player every day, and a lot of stuff was getting swept under the rug because we're injured or guys aren't around," Durant explained this past September. He continued,"You see what happened with our season, guys in and out the lineup, injuries, just a lot of uncertainty that built some doubt in my mind about the next four years of my career.
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