Brooklyn Nets point man Spencer Dinwiddie knows his team could use a player of Kevin Durant's caliber as a free-agent acquisition, but you won't hear it from his lips. The former NBA Skills Challenge champ won't take part in actively recruiting Durant when the offseason comes:
“Why would I actively recruit arguably the best player in the world to come to our team when he would fill the exact spot that we need and potentially take us from just being an eighth-, seventh-seed or so, to an Eastern Conference championship team? Oh please write this down,” Dinwiddie told Stefan Bondy of the New York Daily News. “Why would I do that because then I’ll get in trouble for tampering?”
The Nets have the salary cap space to give Durant as much money as possible by CBA metrics and could even sign two max free agents by trading Allen Crabbe and renouncing the rights to D'Angelo Russell in the summer.
The New York Knicks have already set out wheels in motion to pitch Durant into life in The Big Apple, but if their approach doesn't prove satisfactory, Brooklyn is only a train ride away and worthy of consideration:
“I don’t see why we wouldn’t (be a destination for the stars this summer). Especially, I guess, at the forward spot,” Dinwiddie said. “That’s where all the big free agents are and our biggest hole is probably at the forward spot. You got Jarrett Allen at the 5. We got (Russell) and Caris at the 1 and the 2. And which spots to fill? The 3 and the 4, right?”
Brooklyn has managed to keep itself in playoff contention without arguably its best player in Caris LeVert, and signing Durant in the summer would only mean bolstering an already promising young core with a four-time scoring champ looking to make his mark in the history books.
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