Kevin Durant has reached an agreement to stay with Brooklyn Nets after meeting with Steve Nash, Joe Tsai, and Sean Marks in Los Angeles, Shams Charania reports.
Steve Nash, Joe Tsai and Sean Marks met with Kevin Durant and Rich Kleiman in Los Angeles on Monday and have decided to move forward with partnership, Nets say.
The agreement comes after a summer of discontent in Brooklyn, which began when Durant requested a trade in June. But despite reported interest from teams like the Boston Celtics and the Toronto Raptors, teams appeared unwilling to offer the kind of return that the Nets were ultimately looking for.
Durant made a last ditch effort to be moved in early August, when he reportedly told Tsai to choose between him and the duo of Marks and Nash. Durant is said to have told Nets ownership that he didn’t have faith in the team’s direction. But with him now returning alongside Kyrie Irving and Ben Simmons, the Nets have to be considered one of the favorites to come out of the Eastern Conference.
So after nearly two months of rumors and reports, Durant is staying put, ending a saga that many will now have deemed pointless. Among those people was Patrick Beverley, who criticized what transpired over the last few weeks.
“Yal can sit and don’t say nothing but that ain’t cool,” he wrote. “It’s dudes with families out here who haven’t got a job because of this KD shit. And to be on and off ain’t cool.”
Durant responded with the hashtag #BLAMEKD, to which Beverley said that he wasn’t “talking” about Durant specifically.
