Brooklyn Nets and Kevin Durant meet and agree to ‘move forward’ together following player trade demands

Kevin Durant is staying in Brooklyn, according to a statement from Nets general manager Sean Marks.

“[El entrenador] Steve Nash and I, along with (governing board members) Joe Tsai and Clara Wu Tsai, met with Kevin Durant and Rich Kleiman in Los Angeles yesterday,” Marks said in a statement. “We agreed to go ahead with our partnership.

We are focusing on basketball with one collective goal in mind: to build a lasting franchise to bring a championship to Brooklyn.”

Durant initially requested a trade on June 30 and reiterated that wish in a meeting with Joe Tsai in London, sources confirmed to ESPN earlier this month.

During that meeting, Durant wanted Tsai to choose between him and Nash and Marks’ think tank. Instead, Nash and Marks will keep their jobs, while Durant will remain in Brooklyn on the four-year, $198 million extension he signed last offseason.