BROOKLYN, N.Y. — It was 4:16am on June 30 when Kevin Durant, Kyrie Irving and DeAndre Jordan hopped on a three-way FaceTime to discuss their futures in the NBA. The only thing they truly knew, according to the three, is that they wanted to play together. Ultimately, in Brooklyn.
“We were like, ‘Are you ready to do it?’ And everybody was like, ‘Yeah,’” said Durant at Brooklyn’s Media Day. “I could try to think of something deeper, but it really wasn’t.”
And it wasn’t. Brooklyn had all the tools to land the superstars – a “family-first” culture with morals that include high character individuals, a blue-collar work environment and growth on and off the court.