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When Kyrie Irving expressed Brooklyn needed to add one or two more pieces, he mentioned several players as being part of the solution, including himself: Kevin Durant, DeAndre Jordan, Garrett Temple, Spencer Dinwiddie and Caris LeVert.
After he received some blowback, Irving said there were other names he could’ve included on his initial list.
Whether or not that’s the case is one thing, but it seems pretty clear that at the time, the Nets point guard thought the players he listed were part of the solution in Brooklyn.
Yet, Dinwiddie’s name has reportedly come up in trade talks, and it appears some around the NBA think another member of Irving’s list may be on his way out of Brooklyn.
Ian Begley of SNY is reporting “several teams monitoring the free agent market expect the Nets to decline the $5 million team option on Garrett Temple for 2020-21.”
Timothe Luwawu-Cabarrot’s emergence in 2019-20, and the fact he makes a lot less money, may end up being what pushes Temple out ahead of what should be a title-contending run in 2020-21.