How the Brooklyn Nets went from a super-team to a Kevin Durant trade request
https://theathletic.com/3393667/2022/06/30/brooklyn-nets-durant-irving/ Alex Schiffer Jul 1, 2022 Follow our NBA Free Agency live blog. It started as a clean sweep and ended up a disaster. Three years to the day after Kevin Durant committed to the Nets alongside Kyrie Irving and DeAndre Jordan, the 6-foot-10 forward requested a trade from the organization. The Athletic’s Shams Charania first reported the news on Thursday . Brooklyn is starting free agency, which tipped off at 6 p.m. Thursday, in a unique place: its franchise player, who signed a four-year extension last summer, wants out. Never before has a player of Durant’s caliber — a league MVP and two-time Finals MVP — become available with so many years of control remaining on his contract. And perhaps never before has a so-called superteam fractured in such a dramatic and unpredictable fashion. The Nets were once looked at as a potential dynasty. Now they’re one of the greatest hypotheticals in NBA history. At least one majo...