Well there has been reports that Durant has considered exactly what you have suggested. He has now been on at least 2 teams Nets and Suns that basically gutted their rosters to add him and the players to it. It hasn't really worked.Lipoli390 wrote: ↑Wed Jun 18, 2025 10:29 pmI think you hit on it, Monster. Ant isn’t a guy who would feel in the least bit shy or intimidated about reaching out to Durant. I’ll add that it can be difficult for fans or even seasoned media guys to get through to an NBA players, but star players dont’ have difficulty getting in touch with one another. Anthony Edwards was the League’s 4th leading scorer last season. He averaged 4.5 assists, 5.7 rebounds and 1.2 steals while shooing just under 40% from behind the arc. He’s probably the League’s biggest personality right now. Oh, and he led his team to the Western Conference Finals. So if I were in Ant’s shoes and Durant told the world he’s not interested in playing on my team, I wouldn’t spend one second of my precious time calling him to convince him to change his mind. Durant should relish the chance to play with Edwards on a team that’s made it to the Western Conference Finals twice in the last two seasons.Monster wrote: ↑Wed Jun 18, 2025 10:08 pmI'm. A little surprised by this info too but like it's been said before there is a pretty big gap between these guys. It would be like calling up one of the best to do whatever it is you do and be like coke to my company and you are still only 23. Might feel weird to do that. Still Edwards is so Uber confident it feels like he would do it if asked. I coukf absolutely see him being like hell no I'm not convincing anyone to come here if they don't want to.Lipoli390 wrote: ↑Wed Jun 18, 2025 8:46 pm
We shouldn’t over-think this. I just think it’s pride and respect. Think about it from Ant’s perspective. Ant has praised Durant as his favorite player - calls KD the GOAT. He played and spent a lot of time with Durant during the Olympics. Now Durant sent word out that he doesn’t want to come to the Wolves where he could play with Ant and take a run at a championship. If I’m Ant, I’m thinking something like: “FU. You know me and you know what this team can do. If you still have no interest in coming here and have your people make that known to the rest of the world, then I’m not going to beg you to come here.”
I think to some extent Durant has a tight circle also. I'm sure he keeps in touch with some of his past teammates a little but he seems like a guy that is gonna be chatting with everyone. Idk how much players can or are supposed to talk right now in these situations. I'll say this if there is much convincing Durant to come here then I'll say I do not want him unless the price is really palatable like Randle and some other asset like Miller or something and I kinda doubt it will be that low.
Of course, to be fair, would adding Durant but giving up Rudy and Donte make us a better team than last season? I have my doubts and maybe Durant does too. I’m not sure how much of a priority Durant puts on winning. But what seems apparent is that, to the extent he cares about winning, he tries to put himself in the easiest possible position to win. Leaving OKC to sign with the Warriors strikes me as the most obvious example. So maybe Durant has been looking closely at the potential trades and concluded that he’ll be in a better position to win going to one of the other teams than he would be playing on a Wolves team without Rudy, Donte or anyone other than the similarly 37 year old Mike Conley at PG. I question a number of things about Durant, but never his intelligence.
One thing I hadn't considered before but how does Durant feel about Finch and the coaching staff? What if he doesn't think he woukd fit well in with what Finch and his coaches does? He might not even be wrong on that idk I hadn't really thought about it before but it's felt like a couple coaches weren't good enough and moved along that didn't exactly make sense. Why did the Suns fire Vogel?
