The Brooklyn Nets are moving on from their superstar era that was led by Kevin Durant, Kyrie Irving, and James Harden. However, going into this season, they were initially a team that Damian Lillard was interested in being traded to and now, there is another star player who admitted to having interest in playing for the Nets before his trade.
In an article by Marc J. Spears of Andscape, Phoenix Suns guard Bradley Beal gives the first installment of his diary, telling Spears what is transition from the Washington Wizards to the Suns has been like. Beal gives the reader a behind-the-scenes look at why Beal waived his no-trade clause to go to Phoenix.
In the midst of explaining his decision to go to Phoenix, Beal mentions that losing in Washington was hard for him to do because of his competitiveness. He also pointed out that he reached out to several teams in the league, including the Nets, to see which teams were interested in trading for his services as told to Spears:
“So, my initial favorite was Miami. And so, we call Miami. [Miami president] Pat [Riley] says well I’ll go talk to [owner] Micky [Arison] and figure it out. So he goes, talks to Micky, we go, we hear back [New York] Knicks, Sacramento, Brooklyn a little bit, and then it was Milwaukee and it was one more big team … And that was kind of one of the most difficult things about every trade and every team. And I respect and love every team, but a lot of them just couldn’t do it because the money was just so high.”
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