Kevin Durant for Jaylen Brown rumors resurface following Kyrie Irving commerce

Proper on cue. The Boston Celtics have discovered their identify being dragged again into the NBA rumor mill with simply 3 days to go till the February 9 commerce deadline, and in what seems like a repeat of the low season, it’s Jaylen Brown being floated as a possible makeweight for Kevin Durant.

We knew these rumors have been a chance from the second Kyrie Irving handed in a commerce request, and as soon as the Dallas Mavericks swooped in to take the star guard off the Brooklyn Nets‘ arms, that pesky rumor mill started to spin once more.

Throughout a February 6 episode of ESPN’S First Take, Stephen A. Smith threw some gasoline onto the hearth, and now, Durant’s identify is now not being mentioned with hushed voices in some darkish corners of Celtics fandom — it’s entrance and heart.

“I’m listening to that he’s on the verge of doubtless being moved. Clearly, we’ve all been speculating about that, that he could also be moved. They’re on the cellphone, I’m listening to Boston is making some calls. Preserve your eye on that. Jaylen Brown. Preserve your eye on that,” Smith stated.

Smith’s feedback weren’t the primary to hyperlink Durant to Boston within the final 24 hours, with HoopsHype’s Yossi Gozlan additionally mentioning the potential for a conference-altering deal.

“Boston was the large shock group to be severely concerned with Durant given they simply went to the NBA Finals…Their willingness to commerce Jaylen Brown made them the leaders within the Durant sweepstakes since he was by far the most effective participant identified to be on the desk. It’s unclear if the Celtics are nonetheless concerned with pursuing Durant now that they’ve the most effective report within the league and nice chemistry,” Gozlan wrote.

Name it pretend information. Classify it as entrance workplace posturing to attempt to drive extra groups to the negotiating desk. Or just brush it off as one other rumor that can quantity to nothing greater than a discourse on social media. Nonetheless you select to course of these rumors, it’s price remembering that when there’s this a lot smoke, there’s often some type of hearth, be it an ember or a raging inferno.

We’re nonetheless within the early days of this recent spherical of commerce rumors, however it will be clever to do not forget that in the course of the summer season, there was a major quantity of concern relating to how Brown was coping with seeing his identify floated in commerce discussions but once more. As such, that concern can be legitimate as soon as once more, each when it comes to Brown’s general happiness with the franchise and the way it may have an effect on a close-knit locker room within the coming days and weeks, ought to a commerce for Durant fail to materialize for the second time.

Alas, that is all half and parcel of the commerce deadline, and for many of us, the joy is what makes this a part of the NBA’s schedule so attention-grabbing. With three days left till the deadline passes, there may be at all times the opportunity of a commerce being made. Whether or not or not it will likely be a commerce fan agree with…nicely, that’s a completely totally different story.