No Sleep Till Brooklyn: Can Kyrie, KD, and Ben Simmons Survive This Season?

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🗓️ 19 October 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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The Brooklyn Nets were the talk of the NBA offseason, and as their season tips off tonight, it seems like the dust has settled…for now. But what’s Kevin Durant’s future just months after he requested to be traded away? Can Kyrie Irving change the narrative around him this season? And what will Ben Simmons look like after more than a year away from the game? Nick Friedell shares his conversations with Kyrie Irving and Ben Simmons with us, and he takes us for a ride through the Nets’ offseason drama as they take the court for a new season. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Nick Ferdell, I've been looking forward to this for months now.
0:04.5	And I say that because you are the beat writer who has become known for showing up and asking
0:09.8	the actually hard questions of the Brooklyn that's which is the team that you started covering
0:14.1	because you followed Kevin Durant there from Golden State, only to watch Kevin Durant
0:18.4	demand a trade over the summer.
0:20.6	And now this team is about to tip off the NBA season tonight with at least five other
0:24.4	soap operas going on simultaneously.
0:27.1	I just feel like you personally are the perfect vehicle to tell this story.
0:31.0	Well, that's a terrifying vehicle.
0:33.5	I mean, if my life is the vehicle, my way to anybody should measure their own, that's
0:40.1	horrifying.
0:44.8	The news is here.
0:45.8	According to our Adrian Wojner asked, he Kevin Durant's manager Rich Climmon has told
0:50.0	him that Kevin Durant has requested a trade.
0:53.4	A decision that could transform the NBA from years to come, Kevin Durant requesting
1:00.0	a trade from the Brooklyn net.
1:03.2	The first thing I thought when Kevin made that trade request and the news came out was,
1:09.6	oh, shit.
1:10.6	I'm going to have to move again.
1:13.2	Because I just got here.
1:16.6	I don't want to pack everything up.
1:19.5	My mom takes me Pablo and she's like, OK, well, where are you going?
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