Nets being patient, nothing reportedly close on Durant, Irving trade front
The Brooklyn Nets are in no rush.
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NBA players react to Kevin Durant's trade request from the Brooklyn Nets
NBA free agency is set to begin Thursday at 6 p.m. ET, and one of the biggest names in the NBA has made himself available just hours before the new league year officially begins. Kevin Durant asked Brooklyn Nets owner Joe Tsai to be traded from the franchise on Thursday, sources told ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski, despite signing a four-year, $198 million max extension in August.
As Nets, Irving situation becomes “acrimonious” other teams prep plans for Durant trade
Kyrie Irving sees himself as one of the game’s elite players, one deserving of a four- or five-year max contract. Brooklyn Nets management — after watching Irving play 103 of 226 games over three seasons and not seem fully committed to the franchise — don’t want to extend him past a couple of years. Nets owner Joe Tsai has backed the hardline stance (at least so far).
ESPN analysis: NBA owners, mum on troubled China relationship, have more than $10 billion invested there
On the eve of the current NBA playoffs, the league's games returned to state-run TV in China after a nearly three-year ban. It was a quiet return, with nary a word from New York or Beijing trumpeting the apparent end of a bitter conflict.
Brooklyn Nets owner Joe Tsai is the face of NBA's uneasy China relationship
JOE TSAI, THE billionaire owner of the Brooklyn Nets, made his fortune in China. His company, Alibaba, began in a Hangzhou apartment and has since been described as «Amazon on steroids.» When Tsai bought into the NBA, commissioner Adam Silver predicted he'd be «invaluable» to the league's expansion in the world's largest market.
LeBron James 'raged' to players over Daryl Morey's pro-Hong Kong tweet: report
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Nets owner Joe Tsai's rift with Daryl Morey over pro-Hong Kong tweet, deep China ties highlighted in report
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WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert says paying for charter flights would jeopardize league's finances
WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert said as much as she would like the league to use charter flights throughout the season, it is not financially responsible to do now.