Adam Silver and the NBA need to forget about setting arbitrary deadlines for free agency. With a cavalcade of reporters, including Shams Charania, Adrian Wojnarowski, and Marc Stein all but confirming this year’s most coveted free agent – Kevin Durant – will in fact sign with the Brooklyn Nets this summer well ahead of 6pm est.
So, here we are. Now keep in mind, KD will be rehabbing a ruptured Achilles all season. He won’t suit up for Brooklyn until the 2020-2021 season. But, with Kyrie Irving coming on board this summer, with DeAndre Jordan and the team’s solid young core of Caris LeVert, Jarrett Allen, Spencer Dinwiddie and Rodions Kurucs; this is a contending team in the east.
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