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Nets Agree to Trade Kevin Durant, Signaling End of Star-Studded Era

Days after trading Kyrie Irving, the Nets reached a deal to send Durant to the Phoenix Suns for a package of players and first-round draft picks.
Kevin Durant was in his fourth season with the Nets. Credit...Matthew Hinton/Associated Press

Kevin Durant was in his fourth season with the Nets. Credit...Matthew Hinton/Associated Press

LOS ANGELES — The Nets’ era of superstars appears to be over.

The Nets have agreed to trade Kevin Durant to the Phoenix Suns for a package of players and first-round picks, according to a person familiar with the deal who was not authorized to discuss it publicly. The agreement was reached only days after the Nets traded their star guard Kyrie Irving to the Dallas Mavericks.

The trades will effectively draw the curtain on a brief, hopeful but ultimately unsatisfying era in Brooklyn in which the Nets gathered elite players like Durant, Irving and James Harden and cultivated hopes of multiple N.B.A. championships. Instead, the franchise endured a series of bitter standoffsugly headlines and playoff disappointments with its stars, and one by one let them go.

On Wednesday night, three and a half years after he and Durant signed as free agents, and almost a year to the day since they offloaded Harden to Philadelphia, Irving fired a final shot over his shoulder at his former team upon learning that Durant, like him, was now an ex-Net.

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Author: Editors Desk

Source: N.Y Times

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