Tony Reali

I should tell people, because I do know, Stugatz, that we've gotten to such rarefied air with the trades that Kevin Durant still in play with suitors is something that will garner a lot of attention beyond where we talk about Devers and Bain.

Devers and Bain are players with a future.

Kevin Durant is a player with a past, however.

playing for a one-year contract and extension at his age.

I know everyone has looked at what happened in Phoenix, and because we were even talking about the last embers of Steph and Jimmy and LeBron last year, Kevin Durant didn't even make the playoffs, and so people are doing something now to Kevin Durant that they ought not do, because Kevin Durant will be able to hit that jumper until he is 60.

Kevin Durant still is a player, even at his age, 15-time All-Star.

When you talk about 26 points a game, six rebounds, four assists, one block, and this stat, over 40% from three, over 50% from two, that's just him and Jokic.

Only two players in the league can do that, where it's like, I will give you efficient scoring still.

You can say what you want about his age.

You can say what you want about his defense.

Don't tell me that somebody can't use that for a year.

Well, someone can use it for a year or two years, for that matter.

Durant would be telling you, I'm guessing, that that's previous flirtations with them.

I've told you the story before of Eric Spolstra explaining

Pat Riley explaining to Kevin Durant before he chose to go to Golden State, if you come here, we think Oklahoma City's been using you inefficiently.

We think that you can, with some support, be better than you are right now if we stretch the floor and get positionless basketball and have guys shooting threes.

And Kevin Durant was like, great idea.

I'll do that in Golden State.

and that's where they lost him the first time.

They've liked each other back and forth for a long time.