Mavericks Target Kevin Durant Trade to make Kiri Irving Big 3 ‘Dream’ – Heavy.com

The NBA trading deadline reaches 3:00 pm Eastern Standard Time on Thursday and it seems that the future Hall of the famous Kevin Durant, 14-time All-Star, which is ranked eighth in points noted among the active Players of LeBron James only – will remain a member of Phoenix Suns. At least for the rest of the 2024-2025 season.

But the dream is still alive. In fact, it can be closer than ever. The dream, that is, kept by the 14-year-old veteran, as well as the future hall of the famous Kiri Irving, a dream that Irving says he has been holding on to his short days with Boston Celtics.

Said Irving, who is already a member of Dallas Maverix, said Athletic This week that in 2018, as he closed his first two seasons in Boston, he had “discussions with Anthony Davis and Kevin Durant” to bring the two superstars in Boston to form a “big troika”.

Kiri’s dream can still become a reality

But this dream can now be closer than ever to happen after it approaches to be a reality seven years ago. Irving is traded from Cleveland Cavaliers to Celtics shortly before the 2017-2018 season begins. Last year, Durant decided where to sign as a free agent after playing the first nine years of his career with Oklahoma City Thunder (in fact in his season as a rookie when Durant won a rookie of the year, the team was still Seattle Superon).

The Celtic made a comprehensive effort to sell Durant when he came to Boston. Instead, he chose to sign with Golden State Warriors, where he won the only two NBA championships since his 17-year career.

And then, in 2019, New Orleans Pelicans made their best efforts to free themselves from Davis and his contract. The Celtic was identified as a top trade destination for Davis, and then -Boston President of Basketball Operations Danny Ing believed that he could persuade Davis to sign a long -term extension of the Celtics Treaty.

It did not happen either. Davis was sent to Los Angeles Lakers – where he won the Covid Bubble Bubble season of 2020 Bubble season.

Irring, in turn, left the Celtic as a free agent after the 2019 season. He finally came together with Durant on Brooklyn networks, but Davis was firmly attached to Lakers, which means that Irving’s sleep of Irving never happened in Brooklyn and S

Two of the “big three” which is now thrown together in Dallas

Once again in 2025, Irving has two -thirds of his dream on the spot. Late on the evening of February 1st, Lakers and Maverix suddenly, in one of the most shocking deals in NBA history, exchanged Davis for the 25-year-old Slovenian superstar Luka Doncic.

With the commercial term for trade in 2025, Durant again became the subject of intense trade rumors. The Golden State Warriors have been reported to have tried to acquire it, but for its reasons, Durant made it clear that he did not want to return to the team that brought him his only rings.

Dallas, on the other hand, was invested strongly in an attempt to acquire Durant and directed it to another blockbuster trade. According to a report from Athletic“League sources say Dallas Maverix, fresh by his swap Luca Doncic-for Anthony Davis, who sent shock waves through the association, dreams of adding Durant to his group, led by Davis-Kari Irving.”

“No foreboding” in Irving’s dream to Dallas

Even if Mavericks fail to add Durant to the deadline for trading on Thursday, the dream is far from dead. Durant remained only one year of a four -year $ 194 million contract, which he signed with Brooklyn, and this remained in place during his stay in Phoenix. If you do not move it on Thursday, the sun will probably want to move Durant to the extra-season, so as not to get anything in return when it hits a free agency after the 2025-2026 season 37 years. Maveri are likely to direct him again next summer.

However, Irving was careful to explain that at that moment his “dream” was intended to be just that – a dream.

“Irving said his comments about wanting to play with Durant and Davis in 2018. They have no” forerunners “according to AthleticS

Jonathan Vankin Jonathan Vankin is a prize journalist and writer who now covers baseball and other sports for Heavy.com. He has twice won England awards for the New England Association for writing sports features. Vankin is also the author of five non -filming books on various topics, as well as nine graphic novels, including the most recent Gladiators, published by Dynamite Entertainment. More about Jonathan Vankin