The availability of Kevin Durant in the NBA market has all kinds of teams interested, however, keeping the rest of the Brooklyn Nets forward’s contract will not be an easy task, since it is clear that the trade package to acquire him it is quite expensive.
The Minnesota Timberwolves became aware of this at the request of the Nets, who demanded the inclusion of Karl-Anthony Towns, Anthony Edwards and four future first-round draft picks, something that seemed crazy at first. This was immediately rejected by the Wolves management, who see a move of this level as unfeasible.
REPORT: The Brooklyn Nets asked the Minnesota Timberwolves for Karl-Anthony Towns, Anthony Edwards, and 4 draft-picks in exchange for Kevin Durant.
The Timberwolves declined.
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Beyond the fact that the trade for Rudy Gobert left Minnesota in a complicated situation in terms of pieces to give up, letting go of two of its biggest figures to stay with Durant does not seem like a sensible move and even more so with the idea of being contender for an NBA championship.
The Timberwolves are coming off their best season in the last four years, all based on a squad that combined young figures with some veterans very well and disarming this base completely to stay first with Gobert and now with Durant would be nonsense on the part of the general manager Tim Connelly.
.@WindhorstESPN tells us where things stand in a potential Kevin Durant trade.
“I think [the Nets] thought there was going to be a tremendous bidding war and while there’s a lot of interest, from what I can tell, that bidding war isn’t really hot right now.” pic.twitter.com/LwbgwYgL21
— Get Up (@GetUpESPN) July 7, 2022
Under this order of ideas, there are few teams in the NBA that could pay what the Nets expect for Durant, since at least for now it would mean giving up two stars and multiple prospects thinking about the future.
