Kevin Durant is apparently planning to be on the move once again.
Per ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski and The Athletic's Shams Charania, the Brooklyn Nets have reportedly secured Durant's services for the next four seasons. The Golden State Warriors' standout forward will reportedly sign a four-year, $142 million deal with Brooklyn and is expected to team with another star in former Boston Celtics guard Kyrie Irving.
Additionally, Wojnarowski reports the Nets are also expected to sign veteran center DeAndre Jordan. Durant is expected to make a formal announcement about his future on his company-owned sports-business network, "the Boardroom," at 6 p.m. ET.
Kevin Durant is planning to sign with the Brooklyn Nets, league sources tell ESPN.
— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) June 30, 2019
Sources: Durant will sign a 4-year, $164M deal with the Nets; Irving will sign 4-years, $141M.
— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) June 30, 2019
Durant's planning to make a formal announcement on The Board Room Instagram at 6 PM. Durant's camp won't confirm his decision, and says "Details will be revealed at 6." https://t.co/ZpHcKFQTDd
— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) June 30, 2019
Brooklyn is making a clean sweep tonight: Brooklyn will sign Kevin Durant, Kyrie Irving and DeAndre Jordan, league sources tell ESPN.
— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) June 30, 2019
On Saturday night, news broke that Irving and the Nets were moving toward a max deal that would pay the All-Star guard $141 million over four seasons. Charania reports Irving is planning to soon meet with the Nets to finalize the deal, which will include a fourth-year player option. Nets guard Spencer Dinwiddie is expected to be part of the Nets' pitch to Irving tonight, Charania reports.
In a smaller move Sunday before the reported Durant news, the Nets also were expected to sign veteran defensive specialist Garrett Temple to a two-year deal, per Marc J. Spears of The Undefeated.
Kyrie Irving will soon meet to finalize a four-year deal with the Brooklyn Nets, with a fourth-year player option, league sources told @TheAthleticNBA@Stadium. Nets guard Spencer Dinwiddie is expected to be part of the franchise’s pitch meeting for Irving tonight, sources said.
— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) June 30, 2019
Free agent guard Garrett Temple is expected to sign a two-year, $10 million deal with the Brooklyn Nets, a source told ESPN's The Undefeated. Team option second year.
— Marc J. Spears (@MarcJSpearsESPN) June 30, 2019
It wasn't expected to take long for Durant to announce his intentions as Wojnarowski reported earlier Sunday that Durant was expected to announce his choice of team via "the Boardroom."
Back in 2016, Durant was in a somewhat similar state as he was deciding which team to go to next. That summer, he announced his decision to go from the Oklahoma City Thunder to the Golden State Warriors via a post on The Players Tribune on July 4.
The former two-time Finals MVP and Kia MVP winner entered the offseason as perhaps the biggest name on the market alongside the Boston Celtics' Kyrie Irving, the Toronto Raptors' Kawhi Leonard and Durant's Warriors teammate, Klay Thompson. He was long been expected to draw interest on the open market from a number of teams with salary cap room.
Durant suffered a ruptured right Achilles in Game 5 of The Finals and the timetable for his return date is unknown. He got hurt on a dribble on the right wing, coming up lame on a crossover move and falling to the floor. He grabbed the back of his leg, appeared to grab below the calf and more toward the Achilles area, and needed help to limp to the bench area and more help to get back to the Warriors' locker room. Warriors forward Andre Iguodala was on Durant's left side as they made the long walk back to the room, with Warriors GM Bob Myers and Curry in the group immediately behind them.
Players have made comebacks off Achilles surgery, with relative levels of success.
This is Durant's first serious injury since the 2014-15 season with the Oklahoma City Thunder, when a fracture in his right foot ultimately limited him to 27 games. In October of 2014, he suffered a "Jones fracture" in his foot and had surgery that sidelined him until December of that year. He played off and on for the next two months before he was shut down for the season to have a third surgery on the fractured bone in his foot.
Since joining the Warriors in the summer of 2016, Durant has been mostly healthy. He missed 19 straight games in his first season with Golden State because of a strained MCL in his left knee. He missed two first-round playoff games in 2017 as well because of a strained left calf muscle, but was healthy the rest of the way en route to his first Finals MVP honors and first NBA championship.
This season, Durant averaged 26 points, 6.4 rebounds, 5.9 assists and 1.1 blocks per game. In the playoffs, he averaged 32.3 ppg, 7.7 rpg, 4.5 apg and 1 bpg.
Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.
http://www.nba.com/article/2019/06/30/report-kevin-durant-announce-decision-june-30
2019-06-30 21:08:00Z
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