The new-founded partnership between Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving with the Brooklyn Nets is one that had been in the works well before the 2018-19 season, according to Howard Beck of Bleacher Report.
The two had become good friends and agreed to one day partner up, with the dream potentially materializing sometime, somewhere in 2019.
While the two would have liked to settle in New York preferably, the Boston Celtics wouldn't have been out of their line if thought, had things gone smoothly in Bean Town.
“A friendship had blossomed between Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving, two towering basketball talents, and that friendship had spawned a vague plan: Let's team up.
Maybe in New York. Or Brooklyn. Perhaps in Boston, if things went well in Irving's second season with the Celtics. The city was TBD. The goal was clear.”
Such is the nature of the modern NBA, built around friendships and relationships, of hopes and aspirations — no longer chained to one team for potential eternity as a franchise player, but now free to mold a career the way a player sees fit.
Neither Durant nor Irving saw a problem with leaving money behind with their respective former teams, more than confident they could make up the difference with the signature Nike sneakers and other business endeavors.
As it turns out, that dream will be lived in Brooklyn, the more stable out of the three options and one that was willing to bring a third friend to the party after signing DeAndre Jordan to a four-year, $40 million contract.
By the looks of it, Durant and Irving will live that fantasy for the next four years.
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