The doldrums of the 2022 NBA offseason were jolted back to a state of alert when both ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski and The Athletic’s Shams Charania reported trade talks between the Brooklyn Nets and Boston Celtics revolving around veteran Nets star Kevin Durant and rising Celtics star Jaylen Brown early on Monday morning.
But then details began to trickle out that the trade talks were neither recent nor active. This hinted that the emergence of these details could be due to the lack of interest in the asking price Brooklyn hopes to get for Durant in any deal. Charania appeared on NBC Sports Boston later that day to add some context to what he’d been hearing about Boston’s side of the equation, and whether Brown had any interest in leaving his current team.
“Obviously, he’s under contract with the Celtics for two more years and I haven’t heard anything about any type of displeasure that he’s had with the organization,” said Charania.
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