Kevin Durant moved to the Brooklyn Nets in NBA free agency after three years with the Golden State Warriors.
Kevin Durant announces he will be wearing No. 7 for the Nets.
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According to the Nets general manager Sean Marks, Durant chose Brooklyn over other interested teams because he loves the way the team is playing.
“I love the system. I love how you guys play. I see how hard you guys play. … You were never out of games. We could never take you guys lightly,” Durant said.
Marks didn’t talk to Durant before he made his decision, and like the rest of the world, he found out Durant would be coming to the Barclays Center via the player’s Instagram account only minutes after free agency kicked off.
“What we knew was we were either getting a teleconference call with Kevin that night or we were going to potentially get a meeting,” Marks said. “We’d seen some media reports earlier in the day that Kevin had crossed several teams off his list, and we were still [being considered]. And those reports were there for everybody to read. And then when Kevin posted it on The Boardroom Instagram site, that was news to all of us in the office.”
Nets GM Sean Marks found out about Kevin Durant's commitment to the Nets via Instagram without having talked yet to Brooklyn. 🤔
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Durant is recovering from a torn Achilles tendon suffered in the NBA finals against the Toronto Raptors, and Marks is well aware that it takes time for such an injury to heal.
“I have no idea. We’re certainly not going to rush him back. There’s going to be absolutely none of that. We have far too much invested in him, and we owe it to Kevin to get him back to 100 percent,” Marks said.
