Durant Trade Watch (CONT')

Brooklyn is still trending toward a spectacular end to the Kevin Durant/Kyrie Irving Era ... even with no deal in sight yet to find a new home for KD with only six weeks to go until training camp

During summer league in Las Vegas, one of the most well-connected team executives I speak to regularly insisted to me that, based on what he was hearing, Kevin Durant was more apt to retire than play again for the Brooklyn Nets. This was in early July.

I told the tipster that I simply couldn't believe that. I was a loyal subscriber to the theory that Dur…