The NBA’s offseason just took a startling turn.
Superstar free agent Kevin Durant announced Sunday he was joining the Brooklyn Nets ― and Kyrie Irving and DeAndre Jordan are coming with him.
The Nets’ acquisitions may have suddenly shifted the league’s balance of power, even though Durant will likely miss all of next season with a ruptured Achilles tendon he suffered in Game 5 of the NBA Finals. Durant, a 10-time all-star who won two titles with the Golden State Warriors, is reportedly signing a four-year contract worth $164 million.
Fans on Twitter had lots to say. Some of it was aimed at the Nets’ crosstown rivals, the woebegone New York Knicks, for missing out on Durant.
Live look-in at everyone rushing to jump on the Brooklyn Nets bandwagon after adding Kyrie Irving, Kevin Durant, and DeAndre Jordan pic.twitter.com/PeSIPLuvJR
— NOTSportsCenter (@NOTSportsCenter) June 30, 2019
jay z and kevin durant meeting in brooklyn pic.twitter.com/EynFAeANo6
— macy knight (@macy_lynnk) June 30, 2019
Kevin Durant y Kyrie Irving a Brooklyn. Nets fans rn xdddd pic.twitter.com/HUFNyO6Dav
— Josu Álvarez 水 (@SweetzCSGO) July 1, 2019
Everybody who said I shouldn’t sign the extension gtfo my mentions 🗣 pic.twitter.com/E6sqlujjXs
— Spencer Dinwiddie (@SDinwiddie_25) June 30, 2019
The duo of Stephen Curry and Kevin Durant. So much potential. Not enough time. It never got to be what it could have been.https://t.co/3stCng9gL4 pic.twitter.com/DyzJDduT3c
— Marcus Thompson (@ThompsonScribe) July 1, 2019
Kevin Durant after leaving the Warriors and restoring balance to the NBA pic.twitter.com/tLdfN9w6qw
— kevin (@kethicc) June 30, 2019
Knicks fans, after thinking they were getting Kyrie Irving, Kevin Durant, Zion Williamson and Anthony Davis...and then winding up with none of them pic.twitter.com/ucEZdGioZc
— NOTSportsCenter (@NOTSportsCenter) June 30, 2019
The Knicks been handing out dumbass, risky contracts for the past 20 years but decided to draw the line... at Kevin Durant?! pic.twitter.com/8NCeqTCe7Z
— 🅒🅗🅡🅘🅢🅣🅘🅐🅝 (@cjgoss5299) July 1, 2019
“We got Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving!”
— Barstool RWD (@BarstoolRw) July 1, 2019
“We got Kemba Walker!”
“We have LeBron and Anthony Davis now!”
“We just got JJ Reddick to go with Zion Williamson!”
New York Knicks: pic.twitter.com/iy2wKB8A3N
James Dolan didn’t want to give Kevin Durant the max. The Knicks gonna choose Julius Randle over KD
— Complex Sports (@ComplexSports) June 30, 2019
pic.twitter.com/5t0LgOrkdi
3 days ago... y’all were acting like we were all good...
— Russell Wilson (@DangeRussWilson) July 1, 2019
Now @KDTrey5 & @KyrieIrving come along and y’all kick me to the curb...
don’t worry I’ll be back @BrooklynNets 🤣😂🏀🥴 pic.twitter.com/qRkKR2aNkZ
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