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EMERGENCY DING: Kevin Durant Requests a Trade from the Nets

The Athletic NBA Daily

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🗓️ 30 June 2022

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Andrew Schlecht and Alex Schiffer discuss Kevin Durant's trade request, how we got here, and what teams could be interested in trading for Durant. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:16.3

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.

0:25.2

Welcome to the MBA Daily Ding on the Athletic MBA Show.

0:30.8

How about we can just watch basketball? I like that idea.

0:35.9

Welcome to the Daily Ding emergency pod! Kevin Durant has requested a trade from the Brooklyn

0:42.8

Nets here to break it all down with me. Got Alex Schiffer of the Athletic. Alex, what's up, man?

0:48.4

Slow-day, how are you? So, did you see this coming? Was this something that was just coming down

0:56.1

the pipeline? Or is this a surprise to you as well? There was always the possibility if the

1:00.3

car reopted in that this still all blew up, but on free agencies, Eve, and hearing some of the

1:05.9

guys, the real emergency pod, and that's just traded for Roy Sonio. I mean, what are you doing with

1:11.2

him? I just blew with 2023 first round pick on him. So, I was starting to lean on the side of

1:18.0

maybe they're over this, and maybe they're going to start trying to build a contender,

1:22.2

and now, obviously, that has changed. So, I guess I'm 60-40 surprised right now.

1:31.9

So, this was first reported by Sham Sharania. Kevin Durant has requested a trade out of Brooklyn.

1:38.3

The destinations have already popped up, Miami, and Phoenix. Do you think they're going to make

1:43.1

a trade for players to help them now? Or is this going to be a long-term play? What is this

1:48.6

going to look like for Brooklyn? It's a great question, you know. If it were me,

1:53.9

I would do a fire sale. I'm trading Joe Harris. I'm trading, obviously Kyrie, you think we'll get

1:59.6

dealt now. The problem with the Kyrie for rust trade, obviously, is you have two non-shooters with

2:04.6

him and Ben Simmons. But I think the goal of the season would be to get Ben Simmons back on the court,

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