Kevin Durant’s Close Circle Confirms Interest in Spurs as Surprise Team Emerges in Trade Rumors

Alright, NBA fans, the offseason is where the real chaos happens. And right now, the biggest piece on the chessboard, the superstar domino that could send the entire league into a frenzy, is Kevin Durant. After a total flameout of a season in Phoenix, where the Suns didn’t even make the playoffs (yikes!), everyone and their mother expect them to blow it up and trade KD. But while we’ve all been cooking up fake trades to the usual big-market teams, the real whispers, the ones coming from people who actually know things, are pointing to some seriously unexpected and intriguing spots.

Get this: on the Burns and Gambo radio show in Phoenix, John Gambadoro just dropped an absolute bombshell. He said he knows somebody who was just with KD, someone KD “knows and trusts,” and they were talking about… the San Antonio Spurs! Gambo was emphatic: “Somebody that KD knows and trusts that was talking to KD mentioned the Spurs. He mentioned the Spurs.” That’s not just some random internet rumor; that’s coming from someone who claims to have a direct line to KD’s inner circle. Can you even imagine Kevin Durant teaming up with Wemby?

But hold on, because the Spurs aren’t the only surprise team crashing the KD party. According to NBA insider Marc Stein, we all need to be keeping a very close eye on the Toronto Raptors. Stein reported that a lot of people around the league see the Raptors as a “potential trade suitor for Durant” and that Toronto might even have “a more realistic shot” at landing him than they would for, say, Giannis Antetokounmpo. Woah. Things just got very interesting.

(This is a developing story…)

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