May the Boston Celtics saga surrounding rumors the crew had been in talks with Brooklyn Nets about buying and selling star Celtics wing Jaylen Brown for veteran ahead Kevin Durant lastly be coming to an finish? In accordance with new reporting from Heavy’s Steve Bulpett, the Nets’ entrance workplace will meet with Durant this week, although exactly what the needs of that assembly is perhaps stay unknown.
Per Bulpett’s nameless league govt supply, KD is “going to fulfill with the proprietor this week” concerning issues the Nets star is sad about. “I’m unsure any of that will get fastened right here,” they added. “However possibly it does.”
So the place, precisely, does Boston match into all of this?
Evidently, your complete course of surrounding Durant’s commerce request and the way the Nets have handled it has ruffled feathers in different entrance workplaces with the Celtics being tied to Brooklyn through the leak about Brown.
“I believe there’s some groups that aren’t very glad that after they discuss to Brooklyn it will get within the papers,” associated a personnel govt of a crew aside from Boston. “That doesn’t assist. I’ve talked with a few groups that aren’t pleased with the rumors that creep out of there via all this.”
“It’s not a great way to do enterprise,” they advised.
Bulpett himself contemplated if Brooklyn’s intentions may also be to purposefully injury the Celtics’ reference to Brown.
“That’s in all probability why they received’t get something achieved and why they haven’t had any conversations for some time,” provided one other unnamed supply. “I don’t assume they will get something achieved with Boston.”
May this all have been a ploy to get Durant to return to the crew after the collection of in-season trades to amass then transfer James Harden having left the Nets with an incomplete roster by the point the postseason had arrived?
It’s not widespread for groups to leak misinformation with the express intent of harming rivals in the best way Bulpett questions.
However, it’s additionally not unprecedented — and if it occurred to fall according to their objectives of protecting the crew collectively, it might truly make a good quantity of sense.
On the Celtics aspect of issues, it could be one thing of a reprieve for followers wanting to see what a bolstered model of final season’s Finals squad can do with the addition of Malcolm Brogdon and Danilo Gallinari.
As for ties between Boston’s entrance workplace and Brown, they’ve weathered related conditions up to now.
If it finally pans out that the Celtics by no means had critical curiosity in transferring on from the Georgia native, this may all look like a lot ado about nothing not too lengthy sooner or later.
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