An appreciation: Zach Lowe looks at Kevin Durant, risk and reward and Nets future
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Now, in retrospect, it doesn’t seem like it was big risk: signing arguably the best player in the world to a four-year deal worth $161 million. Yes, he’d miss the first season and yes, he might not be 100 percent the player he had been, but the Nets knew who he was. He was Kevin Durant.
Still is.
Zach Lowe, in an extensive appreciation of KD’s present and future, points out that yes, indeed, there was a big risk back then but an even bigger reward now. Now only does Lowe lay out how great Durant played his year —despite missing 37 games to hamstring issues and COVID protocols, but how much his play will effect the Nets decision-making going forward.