Kevin Durant wants trading from the Brookyn Nets, sources say

Franchise star Kevin Durant requested trading from the Brooklyn Nets on Thursday, sources told Adrian Voynarovsky of ESPN.

Durant made the request to trade directly with Nets owner Joe Tsai on Thursday, sources told ESPN.

Nets general manager Sean Marx is working with Durant and his business manager Rich Kleiman to find a deal, Kleiman told ESPN.

As the Nets prepare to move one of the most valuable commercial assets on the market, the entire list will be available for discussion in deals, sources told ESPN. The teams call on Durant and the Nets will certainly look for a historic return of the players and the selected for the draft.

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The Phoenix Suns and Miami Heath are among two of the teams Kevin Durant has on his wish list, ESPN sources said, but the Nets plan to move Durant to where they can get the best deal possible. Since Durant has a four-year contract, there is no shortage of teams willing to unload assets for him.

Durant, who will not become an unlimited free agent until 2026, is scheduled to earn $ 44.1 million in the 2022-2023 season.

He and Kyrie Irving had no contact with the Nets after Irving chose his deal on Monday and had a sense of inevitability that Durant would eventually ask for an exchange, sources told ESPN.

The Nets, selected by many before the season to win the NBA Championship, finished with a record 44-38, good for seventh place in the Eastern Conference – and a place in the playoffs, cemented by a victory over the Cleveland Cavaliers on April 12.

They were swept away by the Celtics in the first round.

Durant averaged 29.9 points, 7.4 rebounds and 6.4 assists this season, but he saw action in just 55 games in the regular season as he recovered from an injury in the MCL.

In other news, the Nets acquired Royce O’Neill from Utah Jazz in exchange for a first-round selection in 2023, ESPN sources said. The choice that goes to Utah will be the smaller of them, Houston or Philadelphia, sources told ESPN.

O’Neill 29, averaging 7.4 points and 4.8 rebounds in his fifth season with Jazz.