{"id":17841,"date":"2022-08-23T21:14:25","date_gmt":"2022-08-23T15:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=240094"},"modified":"2022-08-23T21:14:25","modified_gmt":"2022-08-23T15:44:25","slug":"kevin-durant-stays-with-brooklyn-nets-announces-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/nba\/kevin-durant-stays-with-brooklyn-nets-announces-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Durant stays with Brooklyn Nets, announces team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Durant has agreed to extend his contract with the Brooklyn Nets ending rumours that the former MVP could be traded to Toronto Raptors.<\/p>\n<p>The 33-year-old superstar has decided to \u201cmove forward\u201d with the team and return to Brooklyn, the Nets said in a press release on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"zxx\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wQfhrKqUeM\">pic.twitter.com\/wQfhrKqUeM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Brooklyn Nets (@BrooklynNets) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BrooklynNets\/status\/1562092355754377219?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 23, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>According to The Athletic, Durant reportedly told the Nets that to keep him with the team, they would have to fire Nash and Marks. Durant had earlier this summer demanded a trade. The meeting on Monday, however, appears to have reduced any tensions, and Durant is now likely to return to Brooklyn for the upcoming campaign.<\/p>\n<p>One of the many teams who were anticipated to pursue Durant was the Toronto Raptors. They formerly had the second-best chances of obtaining the two-time Finals MVP. But the Raptors were unwilling to give up the reigning Rookie of the Year because the Nets wanted Scottie Barnes in exchange for Durant.<\/p>\n<p>Toronto will probably finish a deal with Christian Koloko who the team had yet to agree to in order to keep flexibility in case Durant was acquired now that Durant is off the table.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Durant has agreed to stay with the Brooklyn Nets next season, ending rumors that  former MVP could be traded to  Toronto Raptors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":169,"featured_media":38584,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1217,2461,1782],"class_list":["post-17841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","tag-brooklyn-nets","tag-kevin-durant","tag-toronto-raptors"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}