Suns’ Kevin Durant Says He Doesn’t Want Nets tribute Video After 2023 Trade

Scott Polacek@@ScottPolacekFeatured Columnist IVJanuary 28, 2024

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Kevin Durant’s Phoenix Suns visit the Brooklyn Nets on Wednesday, but the future Hall of Famer doesn’t want his old team to honor him with a tribute video.

“Please don’t, the night will be better without it,” he said on social media when weighing in on a conversation about whether there will be a tribute video.

He also said he is on the same page as someone who joked that Durant “requested more trades than playoff series won during his time here.”

Kevin Durant @KDTrey5Seems like me and nets frequent on the same page.

Durant signed with the Nets after the 2018-19 campaign and had to sit out his first season with the team because of an Achilles injury. He then played 35 games for Brooklyn in 2020-21, 55 games in 2021-22 and 39 games in 2022-23 until the team traded him to Phoenix.

The high point of his time with the Nets came in the 2021 playoffs when they defeated the Boston Celtics in the first round and then took the eventual-champion Milwaukee Bucks to seven games in the second round. Durant forced overtime in that Game 7 with a long two-pointer, and he could have won it if his foot was a step further back.

Alas, there were no deeper playoff runs during his time in Brooklyn, which eventually ended with him receiving the trade he requested.

To hear him tell it, that time would be better off remembered without a tribute video.