Early returns on Kevin Durant’s ultimatum to Joe Tsai are not good, said Brian Windhorst Tuesday.
“Doing it now is a maneuver, a maneuver that I don’t think worked because as I talk to teams out there, they don’t think this increased his trade demand. They think this hurt his trade value,” said the ESPN writer on NBA Today.
It’s generally believed that KD’s ultimatum — trade me or fire Sean Marks and Joe Tsai — was aimed at accelerating trade talks which by all accounts are at a standstill. The Nets simply are not willing to significantly lower their desired return for arguably the league’s best player: reportedly an all-Star level player, as many as seven first rounders and swaps, and another rotation player.