Boston Celtics and Brooklyn Nets potential trade rumors Jalen Brown And Kevin Durant dominated the NBA offseason. On Tuesday, all that speculation finally ended.
The Nets announced that Durant and the team “agreed to move forward with the partnership.” This is what guarantees Brown will enter his NBA season, his seventh as Celtic.
Forsberg: C’s future in focus as Durant drama fails
With trade talks behind the scenes, C president Brad Stevens addressed Durant rumors for the first time. Appeared on WEEI’s Jimmy Fund Radio-Telethon.
“Listen, at the end of the day, I’m not going to get into the conversation that we had because I don’t think it’s appropriate…whether you want to be involved in a deal with any team in the league.
“Since (Malcolm) Brogdon Trade, we’re really happy with our team. We’re really happy with trying to highlight the best players and building around these guys we’ve been building We are excited to move forward with the team and that has really been our focus for some time.
“You say you’ve been busy and had a lot of talk, but it wasn’t from me. Hopefully it gave everyone something to talk about. It’s been quite a while in front of us It was quiet.”
brown seemed angry about the trade rumors when they surfaced in July. The All-Stars tweeted that he “smh” (shaking his head) soon after it was reported that Brown had been offered as the centerpiece of a potential Durant deal.
Stevens was asked if he kept in touch with Brown throughout the process.
“Of course,” he replied. I think one of the things you have to be able to do is ignore the noise and know what’s important. I can.
“We had them and this was all happening for our pals, so it was very open from the beginning. I spoke with Jalen last week in LA. He was great and He will be back in Boston soon.”
Now that the Durant Circus is over, the Celtics can focus on the interesting groups that gathered over the summer.with blogdon Danilo Gallinari It was a major offseason addition to the team looking to get over the hump and bring Banner 18 back to Boston in 2023. Jason Tatum Comes back as one of the best tandems in the NBA.
