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While Kevin Durant reportedly wasn’t interested in a return to the Golden State Warriors, a move to Miami wasn’t off the table.
Brian Windhorst and Ramona Shelburne of ESPN reported that while Durant told the Phoenix Suns he “had no desire” to return to Golden State, he was “open” to being traded to the Heat and that Miami considered pivoting to an entirely different move before Thursday’s trade deadline.
“Durant, however, would have been open to playing for the Heat, sources said, so Miami debated cutting the Warriors out completely and dealing Butler to Phoenix for Durant, sources said,” Windhorst and Shelburne wrote.
A Warriors source told Windhorst and Shelburne that Durant likely didn’t want to return due to “the same reasons he left” and that Golden State would have “been a f–ing circus.”
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