Rich Kleiman: Kevin Durant returning after NBA’s hiatus ‘not even spoken about’

The future of the 2019-20 NBA season is very much in question in the early stages of the league’s hiatus. A lot of it is out of the league’s control.

But if the NBA were to continue the season or pick things up at the start of the 2020 playoffs, other questions would arise. One of the major questions is centered around Brooklyn Nets forward Kevin Durant.

Before the league’s hiatus, the superstar had ruled himself out for the remainder of 2019-20. But now that the league feels picking up play in mid-to-late June is a best case scenario, Durant making his return this season seems to be back in play.

However, Durant’s business manager, Rich Kleiman, doesn’t think that will happen. On Monday, Kleiman explained why on ESPN’s “Golic and Wingo”:

Honestly, not very realistic from my standpoint and not even spoken about. I mean, it feels like — it was clearly not something that was in the cards prior to all of this. And now I think, just like the rest of the world, I mean it’s hard to take anything more than day-by-day. But, again, I think that Kevin’s gonna figure out the space that he needs to be in to continue to rehab during this time. But, even that is hard to answer at this point with the new rules that were put in place last night.

“Honestly, not very realistic from my standpoint and not even spoken about.”

– Rich Kleiman on the chances his client, Kevin Durant returns this season with a long hiatus. pic.twitter.com/A0zVDzyWcH

— Golic and Wingo (@GolicAndWingo) March 16, 2020