NBA TODAY | ESPN latest on Kevin Durant BLOCKBUSTER Trade: Heat & Rockets are now going head to head
is Kevin Durant what’s the latest so Kevin Durant prefers to play moving forward for three NBA teams either the Houston Rockets the San Antonio Spurs or the Miami Heat that’s the three teams that he would sign contract extensions with once he is traded but for the Sun’s part the focus of their conversations have mostly been around the Miami Heat the Houston Rockets and the Minnesota Timberwolves I’m told so the terminals are are you know along with a couple other teams known as wild cards potentially for Kevin Durant but they’re going to work with his business manager and partner Rich Clim on figuring out just exactly where his home could be as far as those Minnesota Timberols they’ve had some discussions with the Phoenix Suns but I’m told Kevin Durant has no desire he has no interest in playing for the Minnesota Tim Rolls so if you’re the Times how do you evaluate it from a basketball fit it makes plenty of sense to bring in Kevin Durant with Anthony Edwards but if Kevin Durant doesn’t want to be there how do you approach that the Suns have had an interest level in Julius Randall and Rudy Gobar so these conversations will be fluid between now potentially later this week ahead of the NBA draft rud makes sense i mean the rim protection really struggled for the Phoenix Sons last year but I’m hearing that they want to work with Kevin Durant and his and his team and Rich Clim and they also want their best deals may not be the teams that Kevin Durant wants to go to to make these concentric circles fit brian yeah so when Brian Gregory was named the general manager of the Suns he famously had his press conference and said the word alignment like 20 something times people my back i’m trying to get my back in alignment but is aligning with Durant desires their most number one priority and so here’s the thing this is where the risk profile goes if you’re the Timberwolves for example even if Durant says he doesn’t want to be there Shams is accurately reporting would you still trade for him and say “But we’re going to be able to offer him the million extension and he can’t get that necessarily in the open market next year and we just are going to believe in that.” Or are you going to lower your offer to the point where it may not be as palatable to Phoenix because you realize it’s possible for a one-year rental and does the offer come down to the point where now they start to want to work with the rent i’ve been calling this the Durant triangle you need this alignment on where Durant wants to play how the contract works out and something that the Suns would accept that’s going to be a hard triangle to satisfy kd wanted to New York Nick he wanted to go there the Nick have no interest in bringing him in which probably makes Nick’s nation I don’t know probably quite interested and why not uh I think these three choices are by default he definitely doesn’t want to go to Minnesota but I think there is some fear from him at Rich Climon that they’re hoping that there’s going to be respect at Kevin’s age could to give him what he wants rather than try to trade him like he’s 31 years old which he’s not anymore i think they’re trying to get a major haul but they’re hoping that they work with him and get it done it makes me think of Kawai Leonard several years back where the Raptor said “All right we’re going to take a oneyear flyer they won a championship obviously didn’t work out longterm but that is something that these front offices are going to need to weigh all right Shams thank you four unprotected first round picks and one first round pick swap that happened on Sunday thankfully Shams is here with us now to explain what it all means going forward because Shams a whole lot of people they’re raising some eyebrows just a little bit at that pick what more can you tell us about exactly how this deal got done four unprotected first round picks so clearly by this trade the Memphis Grizzes had made the decision that they were going to move on from that core of Desmond Bane John Morant and Jaren Jackson Jr and what this trade allows them to do is give them financial flexibility moving forward they want to resign and do a new extension with Jaren Jackson Jr so allows them to clean the money up desm B was on a maximum contract right now but also allows them to move more toward a younger nucleus they view Jayen Wells down there who was in the rookie of the year canada as a starting two of the future so having players two through five being uh on both ends of the floor valuable to this team but of course the big question then becomes what do you do with the futures of Jerant and Jam Jackson Jr in the last 24 hours I’m told emphatically that the Grizzlies intend to continue to build around those two they want to continue to retool this roster and they have all of these draft picks now that will allow them to be active potentially in the marketpl whether they want to draft them or use them in trades talking to people in Memphis they feel like everything they’ve done in the last several months is not to move off Jantan but actually even more to make him feel comfortable in Memphis particularly with the coaching staff change with Taylor Jenkins to a more fluid offensive coach in Tomas Islow that was kind of going to be my question in the bluntest terms possible are they not moving because they don’t want to or because they can’t and it seems like is saying they don’t want to right now yes I think that makes sense because they I’ve made the coaching change um but the rest of the league put their eyebrow up on this trade well done um because uh this is a an arms race in the Western Conference right now yeah there’s you know 12ish teams who feel like they can you know make a good run in the West next year and this they still step backward it’s not meant to be any slight towards Cantava’s call pop but that’s kind of what happened here now they certainly have ammunition on their roster but when you are a team that trades a player in his prime under control of contract for a draft essentially the draft pick based trade it’s just going to start those questions now they have the opportunity to show actions overs as Sean’s just reported Jaren Jackson Jr can sign that extension i think that’s probably where we’re headed and that will the lock him in john Morant can sign an extension this summer as well if that happens then I will take the Grizzlies at their worry that they are fully invested on on John Morant if it doesn’t the eyebrows is going to stay raised i can’t do that i’ll keep the eyebrow raised for the Memphis side of things on the Orlando side of things Mark this makes all the sense in the world they were dead last in three-po shooting last year and now they get one of the best three-po shooters in the league yeah as you know I was doing a diary with Palo then of the season man he was frustrated wanted more shooting wanted more talent desm Bang gives them that um and he’s around the same age as these guys so I think that their president Jeff Weltman films with Paulo Wagner Sugs and now B that they have a core four guys for the future core four guys that can contend for those wondering they didn’t ask about John Morant i don’t think there are any question uh you know conversations about John Morant and the magic feel like they’re going for it they’re going to try to contend and in order to contend and get a player like that they feel as an allstar player right you got to give up those picks or they felt like they had to and they were willing to but they feel like those picks with their success won’t matter in the end for them or seems like they want to start going for it and want to speak for everybody thinking that there was a gap between these two I did and then what what did we learn in game four you know I really thought the team that would win game 4 I would be sitting here saying they’re going to win the series yeah I can’t say that because I really think they’re really really tight these two teams are really really close and this city is on edge these teams are on edge despite coming back with homec advantage they don’t feel super overcfident because they know how good the Pacers are when I talk to people from the Thunder they compliment the Pacers when I look at the Pacers I tell you that they have not lost backto-bes since early March it’s over 40 games that’s half a season and you know I I just I can’t say enough about how these two teams have proven to be dead even so far so I really don’t know how the series is going to go and that’s my ultimate compliment that I can play and I really think coming into tonight’s game it’s going to be about who can manage fatigue this series has been about managing fatigue it was the Pacers who won the energy game in game 3 that’s how they got ahead sh Gildus Alexander and the Thunder won the energy game in game four look at how they reduced his minutes in the first quarter they reduced how much times he brought up the ball up the court strategy fatigue nerves everything hinges on you know individual baskets this is what if you’re a sports fan if you’re a basketball fan this is exactly the kind of finals you dream about you know I’m apologized to his dad cuuse I’m changing his name to SG Amazing like he’s he’s been amazing the whole playofs especially in the fourth quarter he reminds me a baseball closer in some of these games 15 of the last 16 points come on yeah like on the road put the team on his back uh clearly if they win he’s the MVP but he’s been doing this the entire playoffs and they desperately needed him i walked in that locking room after the game and there was just a sense of relief and uh he’s the one that got him there and he had no ego about what needed to be done to manage that fatigue usually we see him play the entire first quarter they subbed him out that’s not something we see very often but it worked what changed on the stretch look in the NBA finals there’ll be a moment where you feel like the season is on the line your back is against the wall and you’re paging the MVP to show up and guess what he did exactly that he answered that call in grand fashion and the way he was able to be productive late particularly in the last five minutes was targeting Aaron Nmith there they force the switch and now he’s just waiting he’s playing the game you’re on an island in the midrange and he’s waiting for you to put the hand in the cookie jar and draw a foul but this next possession shows how tremendously skilled this man is the MVP SGA again force to switch here he gets the ball you’re on an island everyone disappears he’s playing once like he was growing up in the backyard but this time look at the pivot advance move force the foul this is these are the numbers that we’re talking about when we say clutch performer in game 4 15 points in the final 5 minutes he was three for four versus N Smith in that same frame scored nine points against Nmith the most we’ve seen in a one-onone scenario in that frame so SGA I was waiting i was like “Ok it may not be like a dunk it may not be a three but is it is perseverance and also consistency that has really separated him it’s still the moments that legacies are made of but Brian when we were watching those clips together it’s it’s Jub that’s bringing the ball up the court so that Shay can set the screen so that he can pick his mismatch i got people that I really respect talking about how he reminded him of Scotty Pippen in this game if you remember the way Pippin played he was just a beast on the defensive end because of his great size could defend all across the court and he could bring the ball up the court kind of be a point forward j du brought the ball up the court 25 games 25 times in this game he never done that all season they called on him to do this when they’re down 21 on the road so and then at the end of the game when the ball went back into SH’s hands the reason they got N Smith onto SH all those times they were running the two-man game with them so so first he was the ball handler then he was the screen setter and he scored 27 points along the way that is a genius level performance this is what the idea of this is where we’re going to go with this Thunder team going forward sga and JD that’s what they want to have that kind of power in these kind of type of games can I tell you something this is what’s weighing so heavily on me and I tell you it’s weighing heavily on me it’s weighing too heavily on me who I should pick in this game five are we going to get the Jub that showed up in games one and two or are we going to get the Jub that shows up in games let me say this you know that Rick Carl spent the last three days because the thing that the Pacers do they pressure they pressure the ball the reason they put J on the ball was the pressure they put on SGA that J hadn’t seen mỗi còn lại và mũi nữa đấy làm lần lượt cho đến hết tiếp nha mọi người nói chung là cứ 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NBA TODAY | ESPN latest on Kevin Durant BLOCKBUSTER Trade: Heat & Rockets are now going head to head to get Durant
