It is revealed that Owen will continue to play in the team in the new season. New york reporter Lan Begley later reported that Owen is willing to continue to choose to play for the Nets in the new season. Now that Durant's deal has come to a standstill, Owen is naturally inseparable from the team. Expose Owen or stay in the team for the new season.
Expose Owen or stay in the team to play in the new season 1 Although Owen is still rumored to be trading, it seems that it is more and more likely that he will stay in the Nets to play in the new season.
According to SNY's Begley report, a person close to Owen said that Owen has a good relationship with the Nets and feels "very comfortable" to play for the team in 2022-23.
If the news is true, it means that Owen is likely to stay in new york, remain a Nets player in the new season, and continue to join hands with Durant.
Earlier, there were many reports that the Lakers reached a deal with the Nets to exchange Shao Wei for Owen, but the two sides were deadlocked and no deal was reached. It is reported that the Nets require two first rounds, while the Lakers are only willing to make one first round, and they don't want to give up two first rounds in 2027 and 2029.
Shortly before the opening of the free agent market, the Nets did not renew Owen's contract, and the latter finally decided to implement a contract of 36.5 million next season. Owen averaged 27.4 points, 4.4 rebounds and 5.8 assists last season.
This is mainly because Owen has created a lot of farce in the past two years, which has put the Nets in an extremely passive state and has also brought great influence to the team's combat effectiveness and performance. Therefore, the Nets are unwilling to give Owen a guaranteed long-term contract for fear that he will create more moths.
It is revealed that Owen will stay in the team for the new season. On August 5th, Beijing time, Durant's farce will eventually become a joke. According to new york reporter Lamberg Lee, Durant and Owen will continue to play for the Nets in the new season. Now the Nets management is very pessimistic about Durant's trading situation, and no team wants to be one of them. On the other hand, Owen is willing to stay in the Nets and continue to play for the team.
After the end of the season, the news of Durant and Owen has been occupying the heat of the offseason; Because Durant applied for a deal, Owen became a trading partner because of a long-term big contract with the Nets management, but the deal between the two sides has been stagnant and their farce has never ended.
Today, new york reporter Lan Begley reported on their current situation. Because no team is willing to be a third party or a fourth party to facilitate the transaction, Durant's transaction situation is very pessimistic now. Although everything will change in the end, at present, the Nets are deadlocked with other teams. Another team executive also said that there will be no team to help the Nets complete the transaction.
During the offseason this year, Durant applied for a deal and wanted to leave the team. However, due to the high price offered by the Nets, most teams were discouraged, which led to Durant's transaction without any progress even after more than a month.
After Durant applied for a deal, he named the Heat and the Sun, who were the first in the East and West, but with the passage of time, both teams had already withdrawn from this event, and even the dark horse Celtic who had competed for this event gradually faded out. Because Durant's deal is stalled, Durant will meet with team owner Cai Chongxin soon to discuss the situation. However, according to the current situation, the final result is likely to be to stay in the team. After all, Durant and the Nets still have a four-year contract of $65.438+98 billion, and his trading initiative is in the hands of the Nets.
New york reporter Lan Begley later reported that Owen is willing to continue to choose to play for the Nets in the new season. Prior to this, Owen wanted to leave the team by signing first and then changing, but the subsequent situation showed that this plan was' not feasible', so Owen chose to implement the player option for the last year. Because Durant applied to leave the team, the team management put Owen on the trading shelf, but their premise was to trade Durant first. Now that Durant's deal is at a standstill, Owen can't leave the team naturally.
After Owen was put on the trading shelf, the Lakers became the biggest suitors, because they continued to have teams willing to take over Shao Wei's contract. After Owen was willing to stay, the Lakers' idea of getting Owen was completely shattered. And before that, it was also reported that whether Durant left the team or not, Owen was willing to stay in the Nets.
Owen and Durant's farce lasted for a month, and now the situation has gradually turned this farce into a joke. The most likely result is that they will continue to play for the Nets in the new season.
Exposing Owen or staying in the team, playing Twitter, IG and Weibo in the new season, and searching the major social media homepages of Brooklyn Nets, it is difficult to find the figure of Kerry Owen or Kevin Durant, but now it has changed.
On August 5th, Beijing time, the More Than high school basketball activity organized by Kerry Owen held a star exhibition match in Ken University, New Jersey, and Owen himself also played a role. The official account of the Nets has released the news about the defender for a long time.
In Weibo, the official number of the team sent out five articles about Owen at the event site, including Owen's photos and some wonderful moments when he played on the court. Recall that the last time Nets Weibo posted something about Owen was on June 30th, when the free agent market was not open. Owen previously announced the implementation of the player option, hoping to fight for the Nets for another season.
On Ins, the official account of the Nets also released several pictures of Owen's activities through the story function today to help Owen promote and platform.
It is also worth mentioning that there are four Nets players on the scene, namely Royce O 'Neill, who just traded this summer, and three young players, Kessler Edwards, David Duke and Londes Williams.
"Owen went to the official account of the Nets. In my opinion, this is not like a player to be traded. " Some online reporters lamented on social media.
In other teams, all this seems normal, but the situation of the Nets is really special. Owen's departure ended with the player option, but with Durant applying for a deal, everything became turbulent again. In addition to listening to Durant's offer, the Nets are also exploring Owen's trading market, which may not necessarily leave the star guard.
During the whole process, Ou Du and the whole team seemed to be isolated. They didn't appear on the sidelines of the Nets Summer League, and O' Neill and Ben Simmons were there to help out; They also did not have any intersection with the team's activities or social media, nor did they accept any interviews about the transaction. Based on this, it is hard to think that everything was just an accident when we saw that the Nets' account released Owen's information again and Nets players came to help.
More than half a month ago, New Jersey media NJ.com reported that both Owen and Durant knew that it might be difficult for them to leave the team through trading, and they also accepted the reality that they would play for the Nets in the short term. Durant's trading negotiation is deadlocked because the Nets are asking too much and other teams can't meet the requirements. As for Owen, the general view is that the Nets need to solve the KD problem first, and then consider how to deal with Owen. In addition, if the Lakers are unwilling to come up with two first-round signings, it will be difficult for them to complete the exchange between Shao Wei and Owen.
According to SNY's Ian Begley, at the end of last month, many people familiar with Durant's negotiations thought that the prospect of Durant being sent away in a short time was not optimistic. Part of the reason for this sentiment is that other teams are not interested in helping the Nets reach a deal as a third party or a fourth party.
"Nobody wants to help the Nets get this deal," said one team.
All trading negotiations are full of variables, and the situation of the Nets is no exception. But as of the end of last month, sources said that based on the exchanges between the Nets and other teams, the negotiations on Durant had come to a standstill.
In addition, Begley mentioned that a source close to Owen revealed that the defender was satisfied with his current state in the Nets.
In fact, it has been reported before that Owen has never applied for a deal, and he is eager to continue to play for the Nets. On the day of implementing the player option, Owen gave a similar statement through Cialani. Durant's situation is completely different, and whether he can change his mind will be the key to where the Nets will go next. According to previous reports, KD will meet with Nets owner Cai Chongxin this week.