On ESPN and elsewhere, the Nets situation is increasingly seen as something that won’t be resolved anytime soon and indeed the waiting game may be the Nets plan: to hold things off in hopes of getting Kevin Durant to change his mind about Brooklyn.
In discussions, particularly on ESPN’s Get Up, pundits suggested that the Nets strategy appears to be ask a king’s ransom for KD, wait for the sticker shock, then sit back and see if there is a market. And if not, hope for the best ... at least with Durant.
“This could take a long time and the hope is, inside that organization, is that the longer it takes, Kevin pulls back a little bit and says ‘I really do like it here,” said Nick Friedell, who covered the Nets for ESPN this season.