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“Brooklyn will never get back what they had with Kevin Durant”: Spurs legend sees it unlikely for the Nets to replace $198 million star, calls him one of the best in history

Akash Murty
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“Brooklyn will never get back what they had with Kevin Durant”: Spurs legend sees it unlikely for the Nets to replace their $198 million star, calls him one of the best in the history

Kevin Durant putting in his transfer request has put a dent in the legacy for many reasons, but a former rival reminds the NBA world of Slim Reaper’s greatness.  

Thursday night the Indiana Pacers shocked the NBA community when they offered Phoenix Suns’ Restricted Free Agent Deandre Ayton his $133 million max contract. That meant if Phoenix Suns matched that offer they would go $15 million into Luxury Tax and have no space to sign Kevin Durant.

The Slim Reaper has the Suns on the top of his target destinations, but Devin Booker and Co might have decided to run it back with the same core. They matched the Pacers’ offer without taking much time and made it clear about what their intentions are as they won’t be trading at least Ayton until January 2023.

This leaves one major team which was also on KD’s preferable destination, the Miami Heat. Now whether the Nets would be able to leverage teams into matching their expectations for their $198 million star will be the biggest question until we get an answer.

One of Durat’s and OKC Thunder’s biggest rivals believes there is nothing that can fill the void the Nets’ cerebral assassin will leave behind once he’s gone.

Also read: “There might be a 6’5 Chris Paul waiting for Deandre Ayton in Indiana”: DA can run it back in Phoenix with CP3 this season and join Tyrese Haliburton and the Pacers next season

 

Tony Parker says Brooklyn Nets can never get an adequate return for Kevin Durant

Tony Parker, the former point guard of the San Antonio Spurs who has majorly helped Gregg Popovic and Tim Duncan win 4 of their 5 championship runs says Brooklyn will never get anything close to what they had with KD as he is one of the best of all time.

Few know Durant’s greatness better than Tony and others in Spurs camp. When he was in OKC with Russell Westbrook they were one of the top teams of the Western Conference that eliminated the Spurs twice in the postseason. First time – the season before their Finals (2013) and Championship (2014) run in 2012 WCF and the second time in 2016 Conference Semi-finals.

In the sea of criticism where most former players are singing songs of KD’s lack of leadership, his former rival and one of the legends of the game coming out with this take might bring some balance to the unnecessary mockery of The Slim Reaper on the internet.

Also read: “Rudy Gobert guarded me and I had 42 .. and I’m not a scorer”: 6-foot-11 Ben Simmons made a mockery out of a 7’1 Wolves star who makes over $40 million a year to play defense

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Akash Murty

Akash Murty

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An Electrical and Electronics Engineer by degree, Akash Murty is an NBA Editor at The SportsRush. Previously a Software Engineer, Murty couldn’t keep himself away from sports, and his knack for writing and putting his opinion forward brought him to the TSR. A big Soccer enthusiast, his interest in basketball developed late, as he got access to a hoop for the first time at 17. Following this, he started watching basketball at the 2012 Olympics, which transitioned to NBA, and he became a fan of the game as he watched LeBron James dominate the league. Him being an avid learner of the game and ritually following the league for around a decade, he now writes articles ranging from throwbacks, and live game reports, to gossip. LA Lakers are his favourite basketball team, while Chelsea has his heart in football. He also likes travelling, reading fiction, and sometimes cooking.

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