THE GOLDEN STATE Warriors want to lure Kevin Durant and put even more offence on the floor.
Durant, the top prize in this year’s free-agent class, met with the Warriors on Friday in The Hamptons outside New York. A person close to the situation said Warriors owner Joe Lacob, general manager Bob Myers, coach Steve Kerr and All-Stars Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson were among those present. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorised to publicly discuss the matter.
Durant, the four-time scoring champion and 2014 MVP with the Oklahoma City Thunder, is scheduled to meet with the Miami Heat on Sunday. Media reports say he met with the Los Angeles Clippers on Friday evening and will meet with the Boston Celtics and San Antonio Spurs on Saturday.
It makes sense for the Warriors to try to add Durant — he averaged 30 points per game against them in this year’s Western Conference finals and torched them for a career-high 54 points in 2014.
Durant could make a record-setting franchise even better. Golden State set the NBA record with 73 wins and led the league in scoring. The Warriors fell just short of a repeat NBA title, however, losing to Cleveland in seven games.
Durant can maximise his earning potential by signing a deal with the Thunder that allows him to become a free agent again next year, then signing a longer deal when the salary cap takes another jump.
Bloody hell, where did that come from!
The well of truth
Wonder how vocal sheedy was when moyes was his boss. I think we can all guess
Didn’t want to lose his job I’m sure.
Sheedy was probably protecting the kids….
Moyes is the best thing to happen to football in 20 years. People should have more respect for him. Like the Liverpool fans’ banner yesterday said, he is a football genius!
Paul, in all honesty, because this has been going on for a while now, normally I would try to make a case but at this point, this remark puts a smile on my face.
Must of been hard for Sheedy. Everyday at work coaching kids for 7 years telling them to do this , do that and work hard, all for the goal of developing players for the first team. When in reality he probably knew these kids were going nowhere at Everton.
Prob like most top half premier league clubs in all fairness tho, like v few of these clubs are actually using their own youth developed players
I think it’s the arsenal fans that are the champions of waiting.
Reckon Harry would have been a better choice! Players have no confidence in manager. Harry a fantastic player manger.
Go on the sheedy, great goal, corner of the net.. 1990 Ohh love it sir, love it.
Everton is a good team but they’re not as good as Arsenal – 2013/14 champions in waiting.
Waiting being the important word there!..waiting they will be!
It’s great Sheedy has the courage to speak out.