Kevin Durant has requested a trade out of Brooklyn: He has decided to stay in Brooklyn: Storyline over

[Hypris]

Suns are the biggest losers

Ayton disrespected
Same team
CP3 a year older

That team is very limited in terms of internal improvement. Aside from Ayton getting better, the rest of the team is pretty much who they are.

I think this will be Chris Paul's last year with the Suns. Run it back this year and if it doesn't work out, his contract is very tradable.

This year is the last fully guaranteed year of his contract (year 2). Next year is only half guaranteed (year 3). Year 4 has no guarantees. He can be traded next year with draft picks to upgrade the point guard position.

The last 2 All Stars traded (Gobert and Murray) were draft focused trades. They didn't require All Stars like the KD trade. The Suns have all picks and Chris Paul's half guaranteed contract next year allows a rebuilding team to save money quickly.

The Suns should be looking at a player like SGA next year. He'll be 25 and probably tired of losing with 20 year olds on a tanking team. Sam Presti value's draft picks way more than Brooklyn does.

 

[NaijaProdigy Redux]

This team will absolutely implode

 

[BK The Great]

No

No what?

 

[OG Talk]

3 thousand plus posts. Y’all might have well spent the whole summer talking about Dre releasing Detox.

 

[MoneyTron]

This team will absolutely implode

Nah, I don't think so if they stay relatively healthy. Just like the Lakers, that's a big if.

 

[NatiboyB]

My ass would have KD say that and Kyrie just in hopes of actually getting someone to increase an offer. I’d move both of them still. 2 injury prone flakes with immense talent.

 

[beenz]

All these posts in here and I said from jump If I’m marks I’m not trading him any fukking where.

I said the same thing. it was clear from the jump that KD had no leverage in this situation unless he's willing to put his money where his mouth is and sit out and miss out on $50M.

 

[lib123]

Are you really putting your faith in Simmons though at this point? Even if you surround him with shooters, teams are still going to hunt him in the playoffs and dare to shoot/hit his free throws. Being in Brooklyn isn't going to change that especially as long as he has the ball in his hands.

If Simmons still won't "try" and shoot, then it's still going to be the same issues as in Philly.

Simmons can play the 5 in the playoffs. Problem solved.

 

[beenz]

The fact this team is no slouch...they might even be a decent defensive team with ben..

Just how thebwhole thing got handled that sucked..

u actually depending on that coward to suit up this year???

 

[DrexlersFade]

I said the same thing. it was clear from the jump that KD had no leverage in this situation unless he's willing to put his money where his mouth is and sit out and miss out on $50M.

Exactly and who missing 50 million dude you lost in the 1st round suck it up and try again fukking cry babies you wanted Nash deal with it.

 

[beenz]

pat bev ain't lying. he's reiterating what I've long said about this situation that folks like KD/Kyrie/Kawhi/Simmons are out here fukking up the bag for the next players when they renegotiate that CBA.

 

[G-Zeus]

u actually depending on that coward to suit up this year???

Why pay him if not to suit up????

 

[Thavoiceofthevoiceless]

Simmons can play the 5 in the playoffs. Problem solved.

If it was that easy, then Philly would have tried that years ago whenever Embiid would get injured in the playoffs.

 

[MoneyTron]

u actually depending on that coward to suit up this year???

Why not?

He has no pressure to perform in a scoring role with this team. Run, dish, play defense. He can do that well.

 

[beenz]

It would have made them worse. There was nobody that had the tradable capital to make this deal and still be competitive. The Nets would demand a King's ransom for KD and whoever paid it wouldn't be able to contend probably for the rest of KD's career. KD threw a tantrum and after the Nets sat on his request realized this was the best situation for him and let it go. Maybe before the Suns decided to keep Ayton he had hope but that sealed his fate.

sounds like KD realized he had no leverage in this situation and the nets came to the same conclusion, so they gotta run it back