Windhorst give major UPDATE on Kevin Durant BLOCKBUSTER Trade – Knicks coach search & NBA Finals Gm5

Windhorst give major UPDATE on Kevin Durant BLOCKBUSTER Trade – Knicks coach search & NBA Finals Gm5

durant sources telling Sham Shirania that the Heat Spurs and Rockets are his preferred trade destinations sham’s also reporting that those are the three teams that KD would commit to with a long-term extension so Wendy what else can you add to this well this is where the rubber ruby’s going to meet the road in the Kevin Durant trade situation are the Suns going to cooperate with exactly what Durant wants i think that there is an openness to doing that but I don’t think it’s something that is the number one priority and that is going to really be a factor here of course Durant wants to go to a place where he can get a $100 million extension of course he wants to go to a place that is can be competitive right away but can those teams or more importantly are those teams willing to make the offer and I want to bring up another team here because this is somewhat reminiscent of what happened in 2018 when Kawi Leonard was a free agent he had a list of teams he preferred to go to he had one year left on his contract and the Toronto Raptors were willing to roll the dice as a possible rental and once again you don’t see Toronto on Durant’s list but the Raptors are one of the teams lurking out there who may be willing to do this without knowing that they can keep Durant on an extension and basically potentially be a rental and I think there’s a couple others including the Los Angeles Clippers and potentially even the Minnesota Timberwolves this is still wide open maybe Durant gets what he wants maybe he has to accept something else yeah what’s going on in the NBA we’re gonna keep our eyes on it Wendy i know you definitely will by the way happy Father’s Day happy Father’s Day in Oklahoma City yes we we know it’s raining out there but we are happy to have you on Sports Center appreciate your time Wendy have a good one omaha to the College World these are the signature moments in the pursuit of a title one team a chance to go up three games to one the other team to even it up and regain homecourt advantage it’s nothing we don’t know but he definitely showed who he is tonight you needed to have something here in the fourth and the MVP playing very much the part i knew what it would have looked like if we lost tonight i didn’t want to go out not swimming when the Thunder needed him most this special young player the league’s MVP had them on his back they even the series to two games a piece pacers versus Thunder game five on the NBA Finals tomorrow night on ABC brian Winhorse is in OKC and joins us now brian SGA scored 15 of his 35 points in the final five minutes of game four but why is it another number that caught your eyes ahead of game seven game seven yeah very rarely would I ever say that the number zero is a telling number but I actually thought that the number zero was extremely important to the game plan that the Thunder brought that allowed Shay to have that 15-point quarter and that’s zero assists zero assists for the MVP point guards and that is because the secret to the Thunder’s game plan in game four was to not have Shay Gildas Alexander play point guard the Indiana Pacers whole strategy was to wear him out fullcourt pressure so they just took the ball out of his hands it was essentially Jaylen Williams who played point guard in fact he brought the ball up the floor 25 times in game four he’d never done that in the playoffs or anytime before this season and so in the end of the game Sheay had more energy he was the most energetic guy on the court and that strategy change I believe was a differencemaking decision in this series yeah i also thought the strategy by the Thunder to get Andrew Nemhard off SGA and get Aaron knee Smith with the switch down the final strength stretch of the game was excellent as well and like you said he he just had all the energy in the world but shifting gears to a former Thunder MVP in Kevin got to love Big Perk absolutely and fresh off a 52 win regular season the Rockets have reuped with center Steven Adams three-year deal worth 39 mil adams was set to become an unrestricted free agent this summer he was a key piece of Houston’s zone defense that wre havoc on the Warriors before ultimately coming up short to the Dubs in seven games the NBA where the Knicks are still chasing that elusive finals appearance but first they’ve got to find their head coach most recently they were able to slate some discussions with a couple of candidates former Kings coach Mike Brown and Taylor Jenkins who most recently coached in Memphis according to Sham Shirania this marks the first set of formal interviews since New York fired Tibs last week so let’s bring Perk back into the discussion here on Sports Center we saw more about who the Knicks weren’t going to be interviewing than anything over the past few days man what do you make of the process thus far to fill that head coaching vacancy uh a dis a disaster malpractice at its finest here here’s the thing right if you’re going to fire a coach of Tom Tibido status a a coach that helped you make this franchise relevant again one of the you know elite coaches in the game then you have to replace him with a championship level coach and you should have had a plan in place they didn’t you know we’re sitting up here watching the Knicks search around the NBA and try to visit what other people coaches like what type of stuff is that so you’re looking at it right now and we we were we’ve been praising the Knicks for you know making them making them uh you know the way that they’ve go about going about doing things and being relevant again they took five steps forwards and 10 steps backwards with this move because there’s no other coach out there in my opinion besides Michael Malone that’s available that could step in and fulfill this role what they’re trying to do and that’s ultimately bring a championship back to New York now they did mention that Mike Brown and Taylor Jenkins will be interviewing with him over the course of this here week which of those two candid candidates do you believe will fill that void in a better sense well I like what Taylor Jenkins did with the Grizzlies but he’s not the answer if I had to go with somebody it would be Mike Brown right mike Brown has a lot of experience you talk about won a few championships as an assistant coach we saw what he did with the Sacramento Kings winning coach of the year a few years ago he shouldn’t have got fired from that job he’s great with personality so and he can handle it right he can handle everything that comes with being the head coach of New York the media right the different personalities that’s in the locker room and I believe that if they do keep Caron Towns depending on you know if they try to go get a Kevin Durant or Jiannis out that he could bring the best out of Carl Anthony Towns on both ends of the floor i actually like Mike Brown because he is the best available outside of Michael Malone well Mike Brown was certainly one of the impressive candidates in their eyes back in 2020 before they went with Tibs in that instance perk we appreciate it we’ll try to figure it all out as they do as well take care man appreciate these are the signature moments in the pursuit of a title one team a chance to go up three games to one the other team to even it up and regain homecourt advantage it’s nothing we don’t know but he definitely showed who he is tonight you needed to have something here in the fourth and the MVP playing very much the part i knew what it would have looked like if we lost i didn’t want to go out not swimming when the Thunder needed him most this special young player the league’s MVP had them on his back they even the series of two games a piece well impossible to ask for more than we’ve gotten thus far from these NBA finals and what a reception in OKC last night this is 3:30 a.m local time a welcome home for the Thunder after evening the series of course it was Indie who set the tone Trevor in game one the Pacers trailing by as many as 15 points in the fourth quarter before Aaron Kneesmith knocks down the three andrew Nemhard three as well dance indiana within one and then 7 seconds to go tyrese Hallebertton finds that nail knocks down the shot pacers win it by one here’s Mike Green on the call final seconds no fouls to give hallebertton looking hallebertton driving pulls off jump shot it’s good it’s good with 3/10 of a second remaining tyrese Hallebertton does it again 14 points for Hallebertton including the game winner and the Pacers took a one- nothing lead but then they are after all in OKC and the Thunder weren’t just going to roll over after that one they dominated game two sga to the rack nice little easy reverse layup he was in a groove offensively and the Thunder bench came to play as well alice Caruso with the reverse also with the wing three second Thunder player with 20 points off the bench in the NBA finals since James Harden didn’t but then Hallebertton found a way to get back in excuse me Wiggins found a way to get back into this one as well sga would close things out with a 34-point night thunder would win 123 to 107 all right so we shift to Indiana for game three and Indiana took over in the fourth quarter benedict Mather in the three he had 27 off the bench hallebertton more assertive look for his shot more down the stretch in game three and then Obie Topphen cleaning things up hallebertton though the story 22 points nine rebounds 11 assists they did a better job in shutting down SGA particularly in the fourth quarter indiana comes away with a 116 107 win they took a 2-1 series lead it’s quite the opposite when game four rolled around in game field house thunder were looking to bounce back and that’s exactly what SGA did specifically in the fourth quarter drives on Nimhard does SGA easy money there he wasn’t done under three minutes left jaylen Williams finds SGA to make the wing three to put the Thunder within one and then to space makes the mid Ranger 15 of his 35 in the fourth the newly minted MVP lives for those moments and spoke to that postgame i relish those moments love the moments um good or bad um when I was a kid shooting on my driveway I’d count down the clock for those moments and and now I get to live it so it’s a blessing it’s fun and and I relish it this NBA Finals is for the hoopers and those that can appreciate the artistry within it kendrick Perkins joining us now from the whip clearly qualifies as both of those for game four now we talk about the Thunder playing the role of comeback kids they clawed out of that double- digit deficit late in the third frame what did you take away from that effort out in OKC i took away growth i took away growth Trevor and and maturity we watched we watched those young guys the big three of the Oklahoma City Thunder have a legendary moment they that was a legacy moment for them chad Homegr was a was a monster on the defensive side of things monster double double jay Dub kept him in there from the first through third quarter and SGA they closed to the MVP took them home and that was a defining moment for those guys in a must-win situation in the NBA finals on the biggest stage and they shine like the young stars that they are on the road to even the series that was maturity and that was a legacy moment for them 1430point game for SGA that matches Kawhi Leonard for the most since 2019 kawhai by the way went on that championship run in that season but as the series heads back to Oklahoma City for game five perk how can the Pacers flip the momentum back in their favor well they stars got to show up tyrese Hallebertton i mean you know he talked about you know calling the media and fans box score watchers and think “Yeah we’re going to watch the box score in game five we need to see what you do right?” Like he’s been playing some consistent good basketball over the past two games but he has to have a moment and I’m not talking about 20 points i’m talking about he needs to go on the road and he needs to show up and show out and have a legendary moment and and carry his team pascal Seiakum we know what he’s going to do right he’s an NBA champion he He He’s been there before he’s been there consistent he’s been consistently that best player in this postseason on the offensive end miles Turner he got to show up he was practically a no-show in game four for them so yes your role players TJ McConnell they have to play they have to be stars in their role but on the road your superstars your franchise guys is the ones that got to take you home big B joining us from the whip giving us uh knowledge anywhere anytime we appreciate it as always hey Tel trail you know you know what my pastor Keon say at uh Lighthouse Church right what’s that come as you are come as you are we were all accepted all the time thank you so very much bro appreciate you Trail let me see [Music] i mama took What You tell me Yep took Takema fore foreign foreign foreign speech foreign 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Windhorst gives major UPDATE on Kevin Durant BLOCKBUSTER Trade – Knicks coaching search & NBA Finals Game 5