ESPN: how the trade of Kevin Durant went down

It’s that time, a couple of days after a big trade goes down, and the what-ifs get aired.

What if the Nets had agreed to give Irving his full four-year, $198 million extension rather than holding firm at three years with incentives? what if after the KD trade went down, the Nets had accepted the four first round picks the Grizzlies were offering for Mikal Bridges; what if the Nets knew Durant wanted out, would they have taken the Lakers offer of two firsts and Russell Westbrook and Kyrie Irving instead a first, two seconds, Spencer Dinwiddie and Dorian Finney-Smith? What, what, what.

On one hand, it’s done and what-ifs don’t really matter. In the future when the winners and losers will…