Shams: Brooklyn Reportedly Rejected a Trade of Brown/White/1st for Durant in '22

[Donoghus]

Sometimes the best trades are the ones you don't make.

https://x.com/TheDunkCentral/status/1907790813548941407

[Birdman]

Dumb on Nets part but so glad they did

[Roy H.]

Yeah, this was speculated at the time.  There was reporting that the Celtics had contacted Brooklyn about Durant, with there being a semantic question about whether a formal offer was made.

[SparzWizard]

At the time we didn't know how White would pan out, and Brown lacked handles and was a turnover machine in the Finals.

Or maybe the Nets had PTSD dealing with Boston after that robbery in 2013 so they said no more to us.

Would have been interesting tho in seeing how this would've played out

[jambr380]

Obviously we take the guaranteed Title with more chances on the way, but maybe we actually win in 2023. And we definitely still have a solid shot in 2024 with all of the injuries. The real loss here is White, who after 2022, looked like a total liability shooting the ball. Good on him for improving dramatically in that area.

I?ve seen enough of Durant putting up great stats on bad teams in recent years to not trust doing this at all.

[Vermont Green]

This trade would have been pre Porzingis and Holiday.  So it is hard to compare.  People were pretty down on Brown at that point, down on White, and the narrative was that Tatum couldn't be the #1 on a title team.  Our team for 2022-23 could have been:

Smart
Brogdon
Tatum
Durant
RWill

Bench:  Horford, Hauser, Pritchard, GrantW, Kornet,  Griffin

That is a really good team.  Maybe with this team, we beat MIA and DEN.  Probably not as good as the current team, though.  But then say you still trade Smart for Porzingis and Brogdon+Williams for Holiday:

Holiday
? (Pritchard)
Tatum
Durant
Porzingis

Still a really good team, still not as good as the current team.  I guess it is easy to say now that we are better for not doing this trade, but there were plenty of people, at the time, clamoring to get Durant.

[bdm860]

People were pretty down on Brown at that point, down on White, and the narrative was that Tatum couldn't be the #1 on a title team. 

Were people down on Brown? Ya there was his turnover/handles issue, but wasn't he the Celtics best player in those '22 Finals easily outplaying Tatum (unlike '24 when it was a lot closer)? That's the way I remember it at least.


Looking back, I think this is the main thread talking about it, quickly rereading it, it seemed more like Boston was doing their due diligence back then, with many of us assuming any package would be centered around Brown, as opposed to any seriously proposed offers.

[Donoghus]

People were pretty down on Brown at that point, down on White, and the narrative was that Tatum couldn't be the #1 on a title team. 

Were people down on Brown? Ya there was his turnover/handles issue, but wasn't he the Celtics best player in those '22 Finals easily outplaying Tatum (unlike '24 when it was a lot closer)? That's the way I remember it at least.


Looking back, I think this is the main thread talking about it, quickly rereading it, it seemed more like Boston was doing their due diligence back then, with many of us assuming any package would be centered around Brown, as opposed to any seriously proposed offers.

That thread is gold. And you're right that few were down on Brown.  Mostly, just the usual suspect.

[rocknrollforyoursoul]

Getting Durant might've gotten Boston a title a bit sooner, but he already would've demanded a trade out of Boston by now. Sticking with Brown/White was the better long-term decision.

[ozgod]

Sometimes the best trades are the ones you don't make.

https://x.com/TheDunkCentral/status/1907790813548941407

Nets bailing us out again 

[Phantom255x]

I still wish we could have signed him in the Summer of 2016. There's a pretty good chance we'd still have the Jays around as well going forward long term (maybe not Derrick White) and potentially multiple titles. Golden State wouldn't be what they became between 2017-2019 without KD also going there and making the superteam. And GSW, HOU and CLE were really the only threats for those years to win it all.

[Vermont Green]

The Durant to PHX ended up being a 4 team trade but essentially, BKN got Bridges, Cam Johnson, and 4 Firsts for Durant and TJ Warren.  Glad BOS didn't try to top that.  That was the market for Durant at the time.  Even now, Durant is a great player, 27 ppg, 43% from 3, over 4 assists.

BKN ended up adding 5 more firsts from the Knicks and Bogdanovic by flipping Bridges.  Durant got them 9 first round picks, plus Cam Johnson.  Wow.  And if they can get Bogdanovic back on the court, they may trade him for even more.

The Phoenix Suns have acquired forwards Kevin Durant and T.J. Warren from the Brooklyn Nets in a four-team trade with the Milwaukee Bucks and Indiana Pacers. Brooklyn receives forwards Mikal Bridges, Cam Johnson, multiple first-round picks (2023, 2025, 2027 and 2029) and a first-round pick swap in 2028 from Phoenix, as well as second-round picks from Milwaukee, in the exchange.

As part of the deal, veteran forward Jae Crowder heads to the Bucks, with Indiana also netting second-round picks while taking on players into its cap space.

Here are the full trade details:

[timpiker]

What is it with all the Durant rumors?  I've seen a couple of articles in the last week and in the game toe other night, Scal was being coy about it.