The NBA offseason drama just got ratcheted up another few notches.
We knew Kyrie Irving was weighing whether to decline his option with the Brooklyn Nets and potentially sign-and-trade elsewhere, which could mean Kevin Durant would then want out … and now we have two reports about how he’s feeling as free agency approaches.
One is from the New York Daily News’s Kristian Winfield: Irving has “requested and received permission from the Nets to find sign-and-trade offers from other teams.”