Amid all of the furor related to the lingering trade request of Brooklyn Nets star swingman Kevin Durant that has roped in star Boston Celtics forward Jaylen Brown, we are increasingly getting rumbles that this all may be much ado about nothing. The short version is that there had initially been concern that the reason Brown’s name came up in trade talks with the Nets at all is that he might be seen as a potential flight risk at the end of his current contract in the offseason after next.
But later reporting has thrown cold water on that notion, first with whispers that the situation was being miscast by Brooklyn for their own ends, and then that Brown himself is well aware of how things truly stand between him and Boston. Heavy’s Steve Bulpett has now added to that perspective, with an unnamed league exec suggesting there’s little reason to fret.
