At the start of April, Brooklyn Nets general manager Sean Marks stated that the team’s four players who tested positive for COVID-19 were now symptom-free. When those four players were first diagnosed, only one had displayed any symptoms.
Kevin Durant was among the four, but he was not the one who was displaying symptoms. In fact, according to his business manager, Rich Kleiman, Durant never showed any symptoms of COVID-19.
Additionally, Kleiman recently provided an update on the forward’s rehab of his surgically repaired right Achilles while the league has been on hiatus during an appearance on Sports Illustrated’s “The Crossover” podcast:
He’s doing good. He’s exactly where he’s supposed to be. It’s been almost a year since the injury. But, you know, he’s been able to maintain his rehabilitation during this period, not to the same extent. But, you know, he’s continuing to get stronger and keep building and playing. And, you know, things have slowed down tremendously for everyone, just like if he wasn’t rehabbing back. But this hasn’t thrown him off the path to coming back to play.
What does that all mean if the NBA tries to finish off 2019-20? At this point, nothing. Kleiman still hasn’t talked with Durant about him coming back for this season if the league resumes play:
I promise you, Kevin and I have not talked about that. And I know it sounds crazy, but my assumption has been that wasn’t very realistic. I know when the time will be right to have that conversation but it just hasn’t been that time and it just doesn’t feel like it’s needed.
And Kleiman hasn’t felt the need to bring up the possibility because “it just seems so unrealistic.”
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