{"id":394140,"date":"2022-06-26T06:58:37","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T06:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/?p=394140"},"modified":"2022-06-26T06:58:38","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T06:58:38","slug":"damian-lillard-tries-his-best-to-lure-kevin-durant-to-the-blazers-as-kyrie-uses-kd-as-a-leverage-during-negotiations-with-nets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/damian-lillard-tries-his-best-to-lure-kevin-durant-to-the-blazers-as-kyrie-uses-kd-as-a-leverage-during-negotiations-with-nets\/","title":{"rendered":"Damian Lillard Tries His Best to Lure Kevin Durant to the Blazers as Kyrie Uses KD as a Leverage During Negotiations With Nets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While guiding Team USA to Olympic gold in Tokyo last summer, Kevin Durant and Damian Lillard became closer. Well over a decade after being selected by the Seattle Supersonics in the NBA Draft, Kevin Durant still has a strong, personal affection for the Pacific Northwest. If the two-time Finals MVP were to really depart the Nets, it seems improbable that he would put the Blazers on his list of prospective new clubs.<\/p>\n<p>In an apparent attempt to entice Kevin Durant to the Pacific Northwest, <a href=\"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/nba\/nba-team-detail\/POR\/depth-chart\">Blazers<\/a> guard Damian Lillard published a photoshopped image of the Nets star as his teammate on Saturday. In other news, Kyrie Irving is using his friend, Durant as <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/esidery\/status\/1539657861013204992?s=20&amp;t=wQdMIA6K1hClyuxOCo4lmw\">leverage<\/a> to negotiate a contract with the Nets. So, there&#8217;s a good chance that the Nets might lose KD if they fail to retain Kyrie.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_393533\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-393533\" style=\"width: 1296px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-393533\" src=\"https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/06\/Kyrie-Irving-Kevin-Durant.jpg\" alt=\"Kyrie Irving Kevin Durant\" width=\"1296\" height=\"729\" srcset=\"https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/06\/Kyrie-Irving-Kevin-Durant.jpg 1296w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/06\/Kyrie-Irving-Kevin-Durant-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/06\/Kyrie-Irving-Kevin-Durant-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/06\/Kyrie-Irving-Kevin-Durant-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1296px) 100vw, 1296px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-393533\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credits: News WWC<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The internet had already taken off with the prospect of seeing <a href=\"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/nba\/player-details\/20000884\/K.Kevin\">Durant<\/a> and Lillard on the same team when Lillard shared the image of Durant sporting a Blazers uniform on his Instagram story before quickly deleting it.<\/p>\n<h2>Lillard teases potential partnership with Kevin Durant<\/h2>\n<p>Trade speculations will pick up steam now that the NBA draft is over and free agency will commence on July 6 in a league with by far the most captivating offseason drama. This summer, there will be a lot of speculation about the Portland Trail Blazers.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Dame\u2019s IG story \ud83d\udc40 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uPthgd2u28\">pic.twitter.com\/uPthgd2u28<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BleacherReport\/status\/1540791206162141184?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 25, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/nba\/player-details\/20000619\/D.Damian\">Damian Lillard<\/a> has already fueled the already wacky fire by posting a doctored image of Brooklyn Nets player Kevin Durant wearing a Trail Blazers outfit next to Lillard on his Instagram account on Saturday. In fact, Portland center <a href=\"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/nba\/player-details\/20000827\/J.Jusuf\">Jusuf Nurkic<\/a> tweeted the image using an emoji of a puzzle piece.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"qme\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83e\udde9 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zPrLY3eTPB\">pic.twitter.com\/zPrLY3eTPB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jusuf Nurki\u0107 \ud83c\udde7\ud83c\udde6 (@bosnianbeast27) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bosnianbeast27\/status\/1540786240533848064?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 25, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Irving and Durant are close buddies. He may even be somewhat responsible for Durant&#8217;s presence in <a href=\"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/nba\/nba-team-detail\/BKN\/depth-chart\">Brooklyn<\/a>. Without him, Brooklyn wouldn&#8217;t have Durant. They run the danger of ejecting Durant as well if they evict Irving.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Kyrie Irving\u2019s leverage in negotiations with the Nets is that Kevin Durant will want a trade if he leaves, per <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wojespn?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@wojespn<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Evan Sidery (@esidery) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/esidery\/status\/1539657861013204992?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 22, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While guiding Team USA to Olympic gold in Tokyo last summer, Kevin Durant and Damian Lillard became closer. Well over a decade after being selected by the Seattle Supersonics in the NBA Draft, Kevin Durant still has a strong, personal affection for the Pacific Northwest. If the two-time Finals MVP were to really depart the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":394141,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,51,92],"tags":[342,46,154],"class_list":["post-394140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brooklyn-nets","category-nba","category-portland-trail-blazers","tag-damian-lillard","tag-kevin-durant","tag-kyrie-irving"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}