Nets common supervisor Sean Marks left the door open barely for Kevin Durant to return to the court docket ought to the NBA season resume after shutting down on March 11 due to the coronavirus pandemic.
“That’s a $110 million query,” Marks advised Newshub of his native New Zealand. “In all seriousness, we’ve tried to not speak about his timeline quite a bit.”
The Nets have shed little mild on Durant’s progress for the reason that season was placed on maintain. Marks preached warning and never desirous to push a participant to come back again if he's not 100 p.c prepared. However the pandemic has given Durant practically two extra months of restoration time from surgical procedure to restore the ruptured Achilles tendon he suffered throughout final June’s NBA Finals. Marks was already seeing enchancment in his celebrity in ready.
“I can let you know this although — earlier than the pandemic, he appeared like Kevin Durant and that’s a superb factor,” Marks mentioned.
Durant was one in every of 4 Nets gamers to check optimistic for COVID-19 and has since recovered.
“I simply don’t understand how popping out of this pandemic will have an effect on anyone, not to mention Kevin,” Marks mentioned. “Whenever you’ve bought sufficient invested in a participant like Kevin, we’re by no means going to push him to come back again.”
The GM’s statements appear extra hopeful than what Durant’s supervisor Wealthy Kleiman advised Sports activities Illustrated in April. Kleinman hadn’t mentioned it with the previous MVP, who signed a four-year, $164 million contract with the Nets final summer time, as a result of he noticed a return this season as “unrealistic.”
“I promise you, Kevin and I've not talked about that. And I do know it sounds loopy, however my assumption has been that that wasn’t very practical,” Kleiman mentioned in April. “It’s simply not … I do know when the time will likely be proper to have that dialog; however it simply hasn’t been that point and it simply doesn’t really feel prefer it’s wanted.”
When play stopped the Nets have been 30-34, in seventh place within the Japanese Convention and in line for a playoff berth.
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