Miami Heat: It’s time to move on from the Kevin Durant pipe dream
By Isiah Curry
Miami Heat: Deals Require Satisfaction For Multiple Sides And That’s The Issue
Let’s take the James Harden and Ben Simmons swap, for example, or even the 2013 trade that sent eventual Hall of Fame inductees, Paul Pierce and Kevin Garnett, to Brooklyn. Those transactions were successful because the respective franchises were able to create an agreeable yet bilateral deal.
It gets tricky for Miami because they’ve ultimately refrained from including Jimmy Butler or Bam Adebayo in any potential scenario. However, the reluctance of giving up either top talent is quite understandable, as each player has elevated this franchise’s return to contention status.
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Not to mention that per the NBA’s Collective Bargaining Agreement, Miami wouldn’t be able to include Bam Adebayo in a single-team deal to Brooklyn, for reasons regarding his Designated Rookie Extension contract status.
The agreement states that any player who is under a Designated Rookie Extension contract cannot be dealt to a team that includes a player on the same type of deal. This very much applies to Simmons, who the Nets would also need to trade along with Durant to, potentially, acquire Adebayo.