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It was earlier today

on ESPN that Brian Windhorst said this about the NBA runner-ups.

Here was a wind horse earlier.

The rain situation is still in flux.

One of the things that is being discussed right now is that the Golden State Warriors would

offer Kevin Durant a five-year contract, $57 million extra that he could get with signing

elsewhere, let him rehab, and then

work with him to be traded, potentially to New York, potentially to somewhere else, be their

way to sort of take care of him monetarily after what he just went through and also protect

the franchise to get some assets.

If that happens, the NICS would be in tremendous position to get back into it because they're going to have these some young assets plus cap space. I agree that overall the NIC's future, it looks okay over the next few years, but I don't know if they're going to hit the grand slam. Two weeks ago, I could have explained to you how they could have gotten Anthony Davis and Kyrie Irving and Kevin Durant. And when you think of that, you're thinking you're winning the championship next year. So the reality now is just altered from that possibility. Now, this news didn't shock you. It wasn't out of the realm where someone like maybe me being a bit naive, it would be like, oh, okay, this is a bit interesting, but this wasn't shocking to you. Sign and trades happen all the time, but this is not a necessarily sign and trade. This is what Golden State wants, an ideal situation for Golden State because what they get the opportunity is to rehab him and try to convince him, al-a-anthony Davis right now, well, before he got traded, convince him to stay, convince him that we, we've done what we had to. and if he doesn't want to stay, then we'll trade him. But there's no guarantee that he'll go where he wants to go. There are two New York markets with assets or other teams that have assets. And there's no, what I know about the NBA, there's no guarantee that Kevin Durant will be traded where he wants to. It's all about the Golden State Worse. They'll have all the leverage. They'll have the ability

to play with his season when he's available. And it just gives them more time. It just helps

them out. It doesn't help Kevin Durant out. That 47 million, he'll make that regardless

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