ESPN’s Shams Charania appeared in the NBA (Twitter Video Link) today. There were some interesting details about the “offensive” pursuit of one Warriors “aggressive” star, Kevin Durant.
According to Charania, one of the three-team frameworks, including Heat, involves Phoenix getting Jimmy Butler from Miami, plus Golden State’s first round pick, second round pick, second pick and pix swap You’ve seen it do. However, after making it clear that Durant was not interested in returning to the Warriors, they instead pivoted Butler himself to acquire.
The heat also had the opportunity to win Durant, Charania reports, but the Suns declined Butler and Josh Richardson’s offer.
Charania confirms that the Timberwolves are one of the teams that made Durant’s offer after failing to pursue Golden State. ESPN’s Bob Myers said yesterday that the Grizzlies were in the group, but Durant was not interested in playing for Memphis either.
Speaking to reporters today, including Damikael Cole from Memphis Commercial Appeal (Twitter Link), Grizzlies’ head of basketball operations Zach Cryman said none of the stars the team went before Thursday’s deadline had moved. I said that. Clyman also said Memphis was not taking part in Butler’s sweepstakes, Cole added (via Twitter).
“I don’t know why I was drawn into it in the first place,” Kleiman said.
Charania has once again repeated what she doesn’t expect and does not want Durant to involve his name in trade rumours this season. John Gambadoro, a local reporter for Arizona Sports 98.7, reported on Thursday that Phoenix is likely to revisit Durant’s trade talks this summer, but ESPN’s Brian Windhorst said on a podcast that Durant said: We speculated that we might be looking for a new destination in the offseason.
