Will the Brooklyn Nets ultimately trade Kevin Durant?

Kevin Durant technically performs basketball for the Brooklyn Nets. Whether he’ll really play for them once more stays unclear.

It’s been greater than six weeks since KD blindsided the Nets with a trade request.

Team brass has but to fulfill his demand, in fact, and although nothing has modified for Durant from a contractual standpoint, the indisputable fact that he performs for the Nets has taken on a completely completely different which means. The connotations are removed from constructive, they usually’ve solely gotten worse since experiences surfaced that Durant gave his workforce an ultimatum: him, or GM Sean Marks and head coach Steve Nash.

The most up-to-date revelations have “Undisputed” cohost Shannon Sharpe clamoring for KD’s cargo out of city — and sooner slightly than later. 

“They must trade him now,” he asserted Monday on the present. “There’s a cause why this data leaked. You do not make a requirement like this until you’ve got quite a lot of management inside the group.

“Durant needed Steve Nash! He needed DeAndre Jordan, and acquired him beginning over Jarrett Allen. He needed James Harden, Blake Griffin, LaMarcus Aldridge, Patty Mills. They gave him all of that, and Joe Tsai is saying ‘I’m uninterested in you, bro. You ain’t giving me nothing.’ … They’ve acquired to maneuver him, given he is dug in like this. He’s made it nearly unimaginable to take care of him. They do not have a alternative: Take the greatest out there supply, and preserve it transferring.”

Joe Tsai, Nets dig in heels after KD presents ‘them or me’ ultimatum

With 4 years left on his contract, and little leverage, it is clear the Nets are in no rush to trade Kevin Durant, and haven’t any intention of letting go of Nash or Marks. Shannon Sharpe and Skip Bayless study KD’s choices and determine whether or not he’ll begin the 12 months in Brooklyn, or be traded earlier than the offseason is out.

Sharpe’s counterpart wasn’t on board together with his sentiments.

“I nonetheless imagine Kevin Durant is the greatest participant on the planet,” Skip Bayless responded. “He’s a remarkably, astonishingly all-time priceless commodity which you could’t get in return for. You cannot get Kevin Durant again for Kevin Durant.”

Despite his unwavering perception in Durant’s expertise, Bayless acknowledged that his off-court points had been changing into an incurable headache. Nonetheless, he maintained that the Nets wanted to carry their floor in the standoff, and guarantee they weren’t being dictated to.

“I have to admit, Kevin Durant is wanting worse and worse by the minute,” Bayless stated. “He’s backing himself deeper and deeper right into a nook he will not be capable to flail his method out of. This was the final act of a determined man, who is aware of that his bluff has been referred to as. He realizes he is dropping all — if not most of his leverage.

“For Kevin to all of the sudden make it ‘me, or they go’ is laughably absurd. After they acquired crushed by Boston, Kevin was the first one to face up and defend Steve Nash. Steve made positive that 4 of his assistants had ties to Kevin. And Sean Marks was the one who gave Kevin his four-year extension. I feel he is accomplished an impressive job. Kevin’s not a holdout sort of man. He simply needs to hoop. He will not simply present up and play half-hearted — it isn’t in him. They know that, they usually know any individual, someplace has to face as much as the famous person.”

As far as energy performs are involved, Brooklyn possesses the leverage in the dilemma. And although Durant has vowed that he will not swimsuit up for the workforce once more — there are murmurs that KD can be extra apt to retire than play for the Nets, per longtime NBA reporter Marc Stein — he isn’t able to power his hand. 

So, what is going to the Nets do with their disgruntled famous person?