Heard that during last season, after Steve Nash had conducted a full practice, Kyrie would drag guys out of the locker room and conduct his own practices.
Absurd. And so disrespectful to his head coach, Nash. Guy decided to miss half the season over an inoculation but feels it necessary to run his own drills with teammates after a full practice.
I hope he opts out and can't get his big contract elsewhere.
I guess technically, no GM can discuss anything with Kyrie's agent, in terms of a team's interest and capacity to sign or trade for Kyrie. But it is not that hard to look around as see who might actually be able to create cap space to offer a contract to Kyrie. There aren't many. Certainly not the Lakers. The Knicks would have to move some of their major contracts (Randle, Fournier, Rose).
Kyrie's player option is $36.5M. Fournier and Rose sum to about $32.5M so I guess that works as a straight trade (Kyrie would have to opt in or whatever). Maybe this is where this is going. The Knicks could do this as a straight trade and not be hard capped, although I don't know how much difference that makes for them in terms of their off season options. Being hard capped might cost them the ability to sign Mitchell Robinson. Or the Lakers could trade Westbrook. Not sure either deal makes the Nets better.
So the Nets will have gone from a big 3 of Durant, Harden, and Kyrie to maybe Durant, Simmons, and Westbrook. That isn't all bad I guess but wow, Durant must be shaking his head wondering what have I gotten myself into.
