Kevin Durant's Future: Possible Stays in Phoenix Amid Trade Talks

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00:00Kevin Durant seemingly doesn't want to go anywhere.

00:02It seems like he wants to stay in Phoenix.

00:04Again, you know, just reading the tea leaves

00:06from what's being reported,

00:07but his name is the biggest one that's out there.

00:09Even if it's a small possibility, it's a possibility.

00:11Houston, New York, Memphis,

00:14there could be a number of destinations here.

00:15What's funny is that we've gone from talking about

00:18how Phoenix gets out from Bradley Beal for two weeks

00:21to not mentioning him in the last week.

00:23And now all of a sudden it's pivoted to Durant.

00:25Is that tied together with Beal here?

00:28And what would that signal, by the way?

00:30If they traded Durant,

00:31does that signal that Phoenix doesn't think

00:32that they have enough to win now?

00:34You know, absolutely.

00:35First of all, the Bradley Beal no-trade clause,

00:37one of 10 players in league history

00:38to have a no-trade clause, by the way.

00:40It just altered the entire direction

00:42this trade deadline has gone.

00:43But I think that the Kevin Durant thing,

00:45if he ultimately is moved,

00:46and there are not really any landing spots for him right now,

00:48just signals that they have a very aggressive ownership group.

00:51Matt Ishby has been shaking things up

00:53since he arrived to the Valley of the Sun.

00:55And he'll continue to do that

00:56until he builds a championship winner

00:58in Phoenix because one of the oldest NBA franchises

01:00has never won a championship.

01:01So their owner is definitely trying to make something happen.