Speaker 1: I wanted to touch on news emanating out of Phoenix, Arizona,
Speaker 1: involving the one and only Kevin Durant starred for the
Speaker 1: Phoenix Suns. Rumors were swirling over the last couple of
Speaker 1: days that Kevin Durant would possibly be on the trading
Speaker 1: block because the Phoenix Suns, unable to get Bradley Beal
Speaker 1: to waive his no trade clause, would have no choice
Speaker 1: but to trade Kevin Durant in order to get some
Speaker 1: additional compensation to the franchise. The Golden State Warriors was
Speaker 1: a team that was interested to Miami Heat. You've heard
Speaker 1: about the Houston Rockets and others. Well, Kevin Durant has spoken,
Speaker 1: so folks could stop speaking for him, and Kevin Durant
Speaker 1: stated emphatically that he has absolutely, positively no interest in
Speaker 1: returning to the Golden State Warriors, a franchise that he
Speaker 1: helped that he helped to back to back championships after
Speaker 1: departing from Oklahoma City. If you remember, Kevin Durant twenty
Speaker 1: seventeen to twenty eighteen went back to back NBA titles
Speaker 1: with Steph Curry, with Klay Thompson, with Draymond Green and others.
Speaker 1: I contend he would have repeated with ease had he
Speaker 1: not torn his achilles, and ultimately Klay Thompson didn't get
Speaker 1: hurt in that close out Game six. I don't think
Speaker 1: there's any chance in hell that the Toronto Raptors, led
Speaker 1: by Kawhi Leonnett, would have won more than a game.
Speaker 1: I think it would have been pushing it to assume
Speaker 1: they would have won a game. I think they could
Speaker 1: have been swept and at the very most they would
Speaker 1: have lost in five games to the Golden State Warriors,
Speaker 1: and the Golden State Warriors would have repeated, but Kevin
Speaker 1: Durant towards achilles, was out for the next year or so.
Speaker 1: Klay Thompson his his career was ravaged for a couple
Speaker 1: of years. Golden State lost to the Toronto Raptors and
Speaker 1: a new ever had begun thereafter. Kevin Durant is a
Speaker 1: twenty seven point per game scorer, one of the elite
Speaker 1: scorers this game has ever seen. I don't blame Matti Ishburgh,
Speaker 1: the owner for the Phoenix Suns, not wanting to let
Speaker 1: go of Kevin Durant. It's bad news for Jimmy Butler
Speaker 1: of the Miami heat by the way, because he desperately
Speaker 1: wants to go to Phoenix. The Phoenix cinnser of it're
Speaker 1: trying to work out of trade to get him, and
Speaker 1: the reason he wants to go to Phoenix is because
Speaker 1: he wants to play with Kevin Durant. He doesn't want
Speaker 1: to go there in place of Kevin Durant. So with
Speaker 1: the Phoenix Suns unwilling to move Kevin Durant, it appears
Speaker 1: with Kevin Durant not wanting to go to Golden State,
Speaker 1: with Phoenix stating that it has no interest in moving him,
Speaker 1: with Bradley Beer refusing to waive his no trade clause
Speaker 1: because only him and Lebron James are only two NBA
Speaker 1: players with a trade within no trade clause in their contract.
Speaker 1: In this moment in time, Phoenix is what they are.
Speaker 1: Their game above five hundred. They're hovering around being a
Speaker 1: five hundred team. They've underachieved, There's no doubt about that.
Speaker 1: And Kevin Durant, despite his obvious, unquestionable greatness, is a
Speaker 1: man that has not won a title since departing from
Speaker 1: Steph Curry and doesn't appear as if he will win
Speaker 1: a title without Steph Curry so you had a lot
Speaker 1: of people hoping that he would end up going back
Speaker 1: to Golden State, But according to his words, that's not
Speaker 1: something that's about to happen. Because you could trade for him,
Speaker 1: but why would you trade for somebody who's stating he
Speaker 1: doesn't want to be there. My position was I didn't
Speaker 1: want him to go back there because he departed from
Speaker 1: them of his own volition years ago. And if he
Speaker 1: says he doesn't want to be there with you, and
Speaker 1: he leaves Steph Curry to join Kyrie Irving in Brooklyn,
Speaker 1: why would you bring him back? But desperate times called
Speaker 1: for desperate measures, and with Steph Curry still looking spectacular,
Speaker 1: he needs help and he doesn't have enough of it.
Speaker 1: And as a result, the Golden State Warriors are just
Speaker 1: an average team with no real legitimate championship aspiration. So
Speaker 1: back to the drawing board as we approach the finality
Speaker 1: of the NBA's trading deadline, scheduled for Thursday afternoon,