Why Kyrie and KD’s Talk of Two Max Slots Was Always About #Brooklyn and Not the #Knicks

Updated: June 6, 2019

We tried to tell you a month ago that the Nets were very serious about free agency. See, the thing is all you have to do is listen when people are talking and you won’t be surprised.

When Kevin Durant debuted the show “The Boardroom” I did some research on his team and realized a couple of things:

1. KD is heavy into technology investments
2. Rich Kleiman is from the Upper West Side of Manhattan.

Now granted, these things were always true in Golden State but when Thirty Five ventures moved offices to New York it just made things crystal clear:

1. Kevin Durant is going to continue to invest in technology companies.
2. Brooklyn is a tech hub.
3. The Brooklyn Nets will have a young core with playoff experience and two max slots if they renounced D’lo or made a trade.

Well, that trade happened today.

The Nets look to be a major player in 2019's mega free agent sweepstakes after dealing away Allen Crabbe and a couple of picks to Atlanta.

The move frees up enough cap space to add one (or two) of the prized players about to hit the market.https://t.co/OBrfvvvWX0

— Twitter Moments (@TwitterMoments) June 6, 2019

KD is almost as good as a lock to the Nets and not the Knicks. Remember he also was repped by RocNation so there is a personal Jay Z factor in there as well.

Kyrie Irving is also a free agent, is from New Jersey (where the Nets played when he grew up) and is on camera talking to KD about “two max slots.”

It’s pretty much a lock folks. The Nets can now add both to their core and compete for a championship next year.