Durant dealt in blockbuster trade deadline move

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The Phoenix Suns are acceptable to get Kevin Durant successful a blockbuster determination up of Friday's NBA commercialized deadline.

According to ESPN, the Suns volition nonstop Mikal Bridges, Cam Johnson, Jae Crowder, 4 first-round picks and a 2028 prime swap to the Brooklyn Nets successful speech for Durant and guardant T.J. Warren.

The picks Phoenix is sending Brooklyn, acceptable to beryllium successful 2023, 2025, 2027 and 2029, are wholly unprotected.

Durant's impending exit from Brooklyn comes conscionable days aft the Nets traded his moving mate Kyrie Irving to the Dallas Mavericks.

The trade, which came successful the aboriginal hours of Thursday greeting Brooklyn time, stunned the league, and Bridges himself.

Durant's determination to the Suns, who finished with the apical regular play grounds past year, shakes up the Western Conference successful a immense way.

The 13-time All-Star, who was playing astatine an MVP level earlier being sidelined with a genu injury, with articulation Chris Paul, Devin Booker and Deandre Ayton successful a star-studded Suns side.

Durant was averaging 29.7 points, 6.7 rebounds and 5.3 assists earlier hurting his genu successful a one-point triumph implicit the Miami Heat connected January 9. He is expected to beryllium sidelined done the All-Star break.

Durant's departure ends what was a disappointing four-year tenure for the Nets since acquiring some helium and Irving successful the summertime of 2019 arsenic escaped agents.

Brooklyn was expected to beryllium a contender for the foreseeable aboriginal after the 2019 escaped bureau bonanza, but won conscionable 1 playoff bid with Irving and Durant successful the building.

Durant requested a commercialized during the off-season aft citing his displeasure astatine declaration negotiations betwixt the Nets and Irving, and had reportedly worked alongside the franchise to find his adjacent location aft Irving was dealt earlier this week.

Irving fell retired with the Nets' beforehand bureau anterior to his departure, and claimed that he'd been disrespected by the organisation aft being traded to Dallas. The arguable defender did not mince his words erstwhile notified of Durant's exit from Brooklyn connected Thursday.

The stunning commercialized determination could besides effect successful Ben Simmons being dealt anterior to Friday's deadline, with the Aussie struggling since being traded to the Nets past season.

Brooklyn had precocious hopes for Simmons erstwhile they received him successful speech for erstwhile MVP defender James Harden, but the Aussie has averaged vocation lows successful points, assists and rebounds successful 38 games this season.

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