The opt-out of his final year on his contract was supposed to be a formality. Instead, it filters a series of clubs that are “liked” by the player. These include the Los Angeles franchise
There seems to be no peace for the Nets fans. After a season with surreal contours, the offseason should not have had any twists and turns, at least according to forecasts. Instead Kyrie Irving has succeeded in the enterprise of creating a new telenovela with an ending to be written.
the stages
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According to his words, the renewal of the player who could free himself on June 29 by deciding on the opt-out of his last year of contract (from 36.9 million dollars) would have been a mere formality. “I’m not going anywhere – he said in April – Kevin (Durant) and I are going to stay here for a long time.” Coming then to declare, at the end of the match-4 challenge in the first round against the Celtics that he had ousted the Nets from the potseason “When I say that I will stay here with Kevin it means that I will have a role, along with Joe Tsai and Sean Marks, in the moves of the deductible market “. Words in the wind apparently, as had already happened when in 2018 Irving promised Boston fans that he would renew with the Celtics, the former Duke, in fact, would be close to a total break with the New York franchise. Unhappy with the turn taken by the negotiations of his renewal, with the Nets who would like a shorter contract considering the tantrums and the many absences of the talented basketball player in the recent past, Kyrie Irving would now be pondering a future away from Brooklyn and his friend Kevin Durant .
new strategy
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Threats from a strategy to have more negotiating power? Maybe, but it would seem something more. The entourage of the player who in the Nets jersey during the regular season took part in only 103 games in his three seasons in Brooklyn, has filtered Irving’s “wish list”, the clubs he considers the most attractive. He goes from the Lakers, for a potential sensational reunion with LeBron, to the Clippers, passing through the Heat, the 76ers up to the Knicks. Simple speeches in theory but very complicated in practice considering that not only none of the teams he cited has sufficient salary space for a “max” contract like the one that should be destined for Irving, but also the “sign and trade” with these clubs seem decidedly complicated, and, moreover, it is absolutely not certain that the Nets would be willing to accommodate it. If Irving really wants to change the air without sensational economic damage, for example, signing with the Lakers for a season for the so-called “mid level exception” would potentially mean losing more than 30 million in the next championship, the most viable hypothesis, also aired by the guru of The Athletic’s Nba Shams Charania market, would be that of an opt-in of his contract, however linked to a trade request.
the opt-in hypothesis
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A real earthquake for the Nets that to limit the damage would be forced to look for a partner to find a suitable accommodation in Irving. Which, however, due to his now overt unreliability, seems to have less market than what his absolutely crystalline talent would suggest. For Brooklyn, Irving’s departure could create a real avalanche with Kevin Durant, who last offseason signed a new four-year $ 198 million, which could consider other options. Too early to make these speeches, certainly the mood in the Nets house at the moment is not the best and once again Kyrie Irving has thought to create confusion. Will this soap opera end with a happy ending for Brooklyn fans? We will see, the first indications will arrive by June 29th.
June 24, 2022 (change June 24, 2022 | 16:33)
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