Why Kevin Durant should pick trade to TIMBERWOLVES & Anthony Edwards | Colin Cowherd

Why Kevin Durant should pick trade to TIMBERWOLVES & Anthony Edwards | Colin Cowherd

what’s up guys thanks as always for supporting the show it would mean a lot to me if you would take a second to scroll down and hit that subscribe button so you don’t miss any more of our videos also make sure you follow us all over social media so you don’t miss any of our content or show announcements let’s talk about Kevin Durant we got a report from Shams today that uh Kevin Durant and his business partner Rich Kimman are kind of canvasing the league looking for potential opportunities the five names that were thrown out in the Shams report were the Houston Rockets San Antonio Spurs the Miami Heat the Minnesota Timberwolves and the New York Knicks what did Where did your head go when you saw that report this morning well I think he works everywhere i think there’s very few players that fit everywhere and KD is one of them um he doesn’t necessarily need to be the soul of the team he doesn’t need the ball constantly in his hands you get great length a willing defender um 24 26 i I think KD fits everywhere um you know if I was KD I New York I think he fits New York well but Brunson has the ball in his hands i mean in his mind is he thinking Brunson’s got some Westbrook like dribble the air out of the ball and I’m sitting in the corner like I could see him like I’ve been through that you know Kyrie who he played with also can be a little bit like that so I I could see KD just saying you know because he’s got the leverage here i could see him saying I’ve kind of done the ball centric guard thing um I I just don’t want it again um Pat Riley and Spolster are very convincing people miami is a great place to play no state tax it’s a winter league a lot of warm weather like Miami is a really attractive place out east um but I I’m a KD fan i think he fits in a lot of places and Minnesota he obviously fits um and and you know we’ve talked about this like LeBron in his prime was great but he had to be the offensive ecosystem you had to Chris Bosch had to reduce you know got marginalized kevin Love can get marginalized guys get away from the rim go you know Kyrie Irving you can’t have the ball that so Kevin never provides that kind of um obstacle like he just kind of fits so I I can tell you this if if if you were a GM and you talk to a coach or players a lot of guys would raise their hands and say “Get KD because I think he loves basketball he’s a good teammate he’s got a good sense of humor he doesn’t need to be the media darling i I think he’s really liked and respected in the league i 100% agree i you know I love the point you made about his fit like he all five of these teams the basketball makes a lot of sense there’s one the one team that I was like that doesn’t make as much of a sense in terms of the basketball fit to me was the Spurs because it’s like I don’t love the idea of putting a super thin front court player that likes the perimeter next to another super thin front court player that likes the perimeter i wasn’t a huge fan of that one it also just doesn’t really fit San Antonio’s timeline so the Spurs one was weird for me the Heat I like the fit i just don’t know why KD would go there because it just feels like another move to a team that’s not good enough to win the title like I’m just not sure that like is is Kevin Durant Tyler Harrow Bameio is that enough to win the title i don’t I don’t think so when I’m watching that kid Benedict um Matherine yeah math for Indie tonight i mean I’m not trying to overreact here but when I’m watching him and I’m like Jesus he’s just a kid like he’s gonna you’re gonna get this two out of three games next year like this is this I mean he by the way again I think wasn’t he the third leading scoreer on the team or fourth leading scoreer this year like he he coming into the uh coming into the series he was actually the highest per minute scoreer for the Pacers in this playoff run because he was in a shorter role but his like points per 36 minutes was the highest on the team yeah okay so I watch him and I think “Oh he’s going to become a full-time starter.” And it will be Seakum Halley and Matherine are their three leading scorers so I mean I just I’m looking at the East and I’m like I I think Indiana’s going to take a leap next year you know they’ll play with a finals level confidence so I I just I don’t think I I I just I I And I’m not just saying this because they’re up two to one i look at Indiana and I’m like man that is a team with I mean outside of I mean Saiakam he is what he is if I feel like h 75% of Indiana all those players will be better next year i mean out Seakum’s game is his game they’re better than they were last year yeah it’s just like all of them i just I was just so impressed with them tonight so we we can start talking about with Tatum out next year it’s going to run through Indie we got to be honest about this it’s going to run through Indie they are deep they’re well coached most of their players are ascending the East is running through Indie yeah I I agree and I don’t see the Heat as like an obvious like oh he goes there and he’s all of a sudden the favorite in the Eastern Conference i like the Rockets fit i think it fit his skill set is desperately needed as a guy who’s a shot creator that shoot from the perimeter he also brings length at the rim which is not like the Rockets are a big strong team they’re not like a long arms team like Jabari Smith Jr is like the one guy they have that offers really the Rockets need him Jason i would argue the Rockets need him more than any other team that he would play for they need him they’re half court offense gets lost a lot yeah and and he would go in there and immediately vault them into top tier championship contention so that move makes some sense i will say by far out of these five teams my favorite fit is the Timberwolves it’s a similar lack of redundancy in the sense that he brings kind of like exactly what the team doesn’t have which is a rockolid secondary ball handler next to Ant who can really generate shots for his team but they can surround KD with elite super physical defense which is what he hasn’t had in these other destinations and also similarly Naz Reed not super vertical julius Randle not super vertical rudy Gobar is vertical but like they they Kevin Durant would be a guy at the four spot different from Cat last year different from Nas who brings real vertical length to the table where you can imagine Jaden McDaniels Kevin Durant and Rudy Goar on the floor together in that front line and it’s like all arms just everywhere and it would just be really really difficult to handle but it’s going to be really interesting i’m hoping I’m hopeful that we get a pretty quick like uh set of action here in late June where we find out where all these guys land

Colin Cowherd joins the show to discuss the report from Shams Charania about Kevin Durant and Rich Klieman’s preferred destinations for a trade from the Phoenix Suns: San Antonio Spurs, Houston Rockets, Minnesota Timberwolves, Miami Heat, and New York Knicks.

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