The Brooklyn Nets will be patient, waiting for the best offer possible after Kevin Durant requested a trade earlier this month. As of now, no team has covered Brooklyn’s demands for the former league MVP.
Brooklyn’s asking price on Durant still appears to be the biggest stumbling block for any interested party including the Miami Heat. Miami doesn’t exactly have an array of assets it can include in their trade offer for KD.
As of now, Tyler Herro is the most valuable asset the Heat have to offer in a potential Kevin Durant trade and the Nets does not have much interest in acquiring, per Kurt Helin of NBC Sports.
Sixth Man of the Year last season, Herro is eligible to sign an extension this summer and he wants a max contract, as the latest reports suggest. Any Heat trade package for Durant can be based around Tyler Herro and Duncan Robinson, plus picks and other players.
Bam Adebayo is off the table, and can’t be traded to the Nets anyway unless they move Ben Simmons because of the rule about not trading for two players on max rookie extensions, while Kyle Lowry could be included for salary purposes.
In any case, the Nets will play the waiting game in this one obviously expecting a “desperate to win now” team to throw several players (including at least an All-Star caliber player) and future assets in the mix.