The ultimatum that Kevin Durant expressed to the Nets proprietor Joe Tsai – both the staff fires head coach Steve Nash and GM Sean Marks or trades him – might have a destructive influence in the marketplace demand for the two-time NBA champion.
Based on NBA insider Brian Windhorst, after the information concerning the KD’s ultimatum turned public, different NBA groups which are attention-grabbing in buying the famous person will decrease their gives as a substitute of accelerating them which might additional complicate the possibilities of the commerce occurring.
“Doing it now could be a maneuver, a maneuver that I don’t assume labored as a result of as I speak to groups on the market, they don’t assume this elevated his commerce demand. They assume this harm his commerce worth,” Windhorst mentioned on ESPN’s This Simply In.
“I need to level the second half of the Joe Tsai tweet. I feel it’s clearly vital to take a look at the primary sentence which is that he’s not going to fireplace Sean Marks and Steve Nash. However the second sentence is actually the sentence that the league paid consideration to it. And it appears benign when he says ‘We make selections for the very best curiosity of the Brooklyn Nets.’
“However I’m going to decode that for you What he’s principally saying is regardless of what Kevin Durant is attempting do right here, we’re not going to alter what our expectations are for a commerce and in case you are not traded, we anticipate you to be reporting to camp to proceed the 4 years you’ve gotten left in your contract.”
