Here’s how the Rudy Gobert trade is helping shape what the Nets want in return for Kevin Durant.
"So I think the market is still taking shape. I think it's incumbent on some of the other teams to be creative and start bringing to Brooklyn ideas, going out and seeing if they can get players and picks that would put the kind of package together it would take to get Kevin Durant."
Durant averaged 29.9 points, 7.4 rebounds and 6.4 assists per game last season. He also shot 38.3 percent from 3-point range and 91 percent from the free throw line. When healthy, Durant is arguably the league's best player. But, due to injuries, he's played in just 90 of the Nets' regular-season games since he signed with them during the summer of 2019. Durant also is 34 years old, so there is plenty of risk in acquiring him.
But for any team that believes they are a Durant-like player away from winning a championship in the short term, it might be worth mortgaging immense draft capital and a promising young player to acquire the Nets star and go for the Larry O'Brien Trophy in 2023.
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