NBA Trade Rumors: Nets expected to trade Kevin Durant before Kyrie Irving

NBA Trade Rumors: According to a recent report, the Brooklyn Nets are looking to find a trade for Kevin Durant before Kyrie Irving. 

With just a couple of weeks remaining in the month of July, all eyes around the NBA are glued to the current situation that still needs to be played out between Kevin Durant, Kyrie Irving, and the Brooklyn Nets.

However, there’s one constant that makes a ton of sense in this entire saga. And it’s the order of a potential deal (or resolution) for the Nets, Durant, and Kyrie.

On ESPN’s Get Up Monday morning, Adrian Wojnarowski voiced that the word around the league is that the Nets are motivated to find the right deal for Durant. And they won’t move Kyrie until that happens.

In short, the Nets are looking to trade Durant before Kyrie (if it happens at all). And it makes sense. While there’s no vast market for Kyrie at the moment, perhaps that changes once Durant is on a new team.

Perhaps the hope is that a market for Kyrie could develop among the teams that miss out on Durant. It’s far from a great idea but at this point, the Nets don’t have many other options. There are only six weeks remaining before training camps open and Brooklyn doesn’t seem any closer to a potential deal for Durant than they were the day he requested a trade.

It may not be time to panic for the Nets, but there will be a time in the next couple of weeks when Brooklyn will have to make a big decision on how they want this situation to end. The recent reports are that they would be willing to enter training camp with both Durant and Kyrie on the roster.

But are there truly willing to do that? Because it’s one thing to say that as a bargaining tactic and an entirely different thing to actually move forward with that reality.

The next few weeks for the Nets should be interesting, for better or worse.