At one level in the course of the offseason, Kevin Durant adopted up his commerce request from the Brooklyn Nets with a request that the franchise half methods with Steve Nash and Sean Marks.
Nash and Durant look like shifting on in a optimistic route.
“Understanding Kevin so long as I’ve, it did not actually trouble me the way in which perhaps everybody would assume,” Nash mentioned. “That is part of being rivals. I wasn’t overly stunned and I wasn’t even overly involved. It was one thing that I believed we’d tackle in time, and we did. And right here we’re and we’re trying ahead. It is one thing else that we will develop from as effectively.”
Nash additionally did not take Durant fully at face worth.
“I by no means thought that was one hundred pc. It is not black and white like that. There’s numerous components, numerous issues behind the scenes.” He didn’t particularly dispute any reporting about Durant, however mentioned that “numerous issues which are reported aren’t one hundred pc correct, so that you get fragmented bits of fact, you get issues which are flat-out not true.”
Nash and Durant beforehand labored along with the Golden State Warriors.
“Ever since we talked, it has been like nothing’s modified,” Nash mentioned. “I’ve a protracted historical past with Kevin. Love the man. Households have points. We had a second and it is behind us. That is what occurs. It is a widespread state of affairs within the league.”