NBA: Irving asks the Nets to be traded by Thursday

Like a soap opera, the season, with surreal connotations of the Nets produces yet another twist. Just when things finally seemed to go the right way, when the team, waiting for the return of a Kevin Durant who was playing space basketball before the injury, had found the team and Kyrie Irving was able to get talked about only for the splendid performances offered on the parquet, here comes yet another low blow for the Brooklyn fans. In fact, Irving once again manages to give his best and, after trying to make people forget the now famous anti-Semitic documentary posted on his social networks, he proves to be by far the most unreliable star in the entire NBA, upsetting the franchise plans with an unexpected transfer request.

entourage

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In fact, on Friday, less than a week after the transfer market closed (next Thursday), the entourage of the Nets point guard let the Brooklyn management and club owner Joe Tsai know that they no longer believe in the project and want to find new accommodation. If a trade does not arrive before the deadline, the player would then leave Brooklyn as a free agent at the end of the season. A real bolt from the blue because Irving had not only enchanted on the parquet in January (he finished with 29.5 points on average), but he seemed motivated and an integral part of a group that was slowly finding the right chemistry. After the sacking of Steve Nash at the beginning of November, with Jacque Vaughn the team seemed to have acquired certainties and the results had confirmed it. Not even Durant’s injury, with the logical decrease in results, seemed to have taken away confidence in a healthy group, above all due to the production of an Irving in great condition. The Nets had also tried to reason with the player’s agent about a renewal, but without finding the basis for an agreement. A speech that therefore seemed to be postponed to the end of the season. Suddenly, however, everything changed today and the Nets thus find themselves once again grappling with the “Irving grain”.

Lakers

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If a trade were to go through, the favorites in the race to the former Duke naturally become LeBron James’ Lakers, a team to which Irving had already winked at in the offseason. An operation that however is not so simple also because the Nets do not seem willing to receive the former teammate of KD, Russell Westbrook. To bring Kyrie to Los Angeles, the Lakers will probably need a more complex trade with the inclusion of a third team. A truly incredible season for the Nets. Whenever the worst seems to be over for Brooklyn fans, Irving manages to surprise them.