July 4 passed and still no Kevin Durant trade for the Brooklyn Nets superstar.
But you have to figure the franchise is letting a bidding war break out. Because this is a top-three player with a four-year deal you’re trading, so the package has to be top notch.
Obviously, it’ll include tons of first-round picks and swaps (I hope, given what the Minnesota Timberwolves gave up for Rudy Gobert), which I’ll include below with every deal I’m proposing below. But I’m going to keep this casual and doing this in a vacuum — no salary cap implications, no using Trade Machine, but I will stick to avoiding players on designated rookie extensions:
