Suns owner expects Kevin Durant to sign extension next offseason
As everyone in Phoenix hones in on a third consecutive postseason together, Ishbia told ESPN this week that he fully expects to sign Durant to a contract extension next offseason and wants the 14-time All-Star to retire as a Sun. “[Durant] loves being in Phoenix, we love having him,” Ishbia told ESPN. “He’s off to an amazing start this season — one of the MVP leaders — and we’re off to a very good start. We expect Kevin to sign an extension, be with us for the long term. We hope he finishes his career here in Phoenix. “You can’t sign a two-year extension this last summer, you can’t do it based on the NBA rules. So we figured after the season we’ll talk about it, take care of it. “Kevin wants to be here, we want Kevin here. There’s never been one grumbling of anything different.”Source: ESPN What’s the buzz on Twitter? Emiliano Carchia @Sportando Phoenix Suns: Ishbia expects long-term deal for Durant sportando.basketball/en/phoenix-sun… – 5:42 AM Duane Rankin @DuaneRankin Phoenix Suns injury report: Durant, Beal out vs. Knicks, Jusuf Nurkic questionable (w/videos) #Suns azcentral.com/story/sports/n… via @azcentral pic.x.com/LGgYSCjA5m – 9:29 PM Gerald Bourguet @GeraldBourguet Suns list Jusuf Nurkic (left ankle sprain) as questionable for tomorrow’s game against the Knicks. Kevin Durant (left calf strain), Bradley Beal (left calf strain) and Collin Gillespie (right ankle fracture) remain out – 7:35 PM Duane Rankin @DuaneRankin Suns vs. Knicks injury report: Jusuf Nurkić (left ankle sprain) QUESTIONABLE. Bradley Beal, (left calf strain), Kevin Durant (left calf strain), Collin Gillespie (right ankle fracture) OUT. #Suns – 7:34 PM Duane Rankin @DuaneRankin Why Devin Booker, Phoenix Suns keep losing without injured Kevin Durant and Bradley Beal (w/videos) #Suns azcentral.com/story/sports/n… via @azcentral – 5:05 PM Ben Golliver @BenGolliver The Celtics are taking way more threes than twos. Young stars are hoisting like never before. Kevin Durant wonders: What’s a bad shot these days? The NBA’s three-point boom has reached extreme heights. How many is too many? @washingtonpost @PostSports washingtonpost.com/sports/2024/11… – 1:42 PM Duane Rankin @DuaneRankin “I think we’re still figuring it out.” Tyus Jones on how Devin Booker is being defended with Kevin Durant and Bradley Beal out and what adjustments the Phoenix Suns need to make. Suns 1-5 without Durant (calf). Have lost last four games without Durant and Beal (calf). #Suns pic.x.com/8yn8SUre7q – 1:19 PM Duane Rankin @DuaneRankin What we learned as Phoenix Suns keep losing minus Durant and Beal, this time to Orlando Magic (w/videos) #Suns azcentral.com/story/sports/n… via @azcentral – 11:14 AM Gerald Bourguet @GeraldBourguet The Suns are 1-5 since KD went down. Free for everyone, I wrote about some negative takeaways from this stretch (Devin Booker and a few role players going cold), plus a few silver linings like Josh Okogie, Oso Ighodaro, and the power of perspective: bit.ly/4hTr2W2 – 11:02 AM Duane Rankin @DuaneRankin Dunn follow dunk got Durant to stand up on the bench. Suns down 73-59. #Suns – 10:34 PM Duane Rankin @DuaneRankin Phoenix Suns have hit with rookies Ryan Dunn and Oso Ighodaro. Both starting tonight vs. Magic Dunn’s defense, activity. Came down to earth from 3, but been starting for injured Kevin Durant. Ighodaro 1st career start with Jusuf Nurkic (ankle) out. Passer, finisher, IQ. #Suns – 9:01 PM Gerald Bourguet @GeraldBourguet The Suns list Jusuf Nurkic (left ankle sprain) as out for today’s game against the Magic. Kevin Durant (left calf strain), Bradley Beal (left calf strain) and Collin Gillespie (right ankle fracture) remain out as well. No Grayson Allen on the injury report – 3:35 PM Duane Rankin @DuaneRankin Suns injury report vs. Magic Bradley Beal (left calf strain) OUT. Kevin Durant (left calf strain) OUT. Jusuf Nurkic (left ankle sprain) OUT. Collin Gillespie (right ankle fracture) OUT. #Suns – 3:35 PM CBS NBA @CBSSportsNBA LIVE in 10! @JohnGonzalez @sportsreiter 9amPT/12pmET talking All Star changes, Inside the NBA, DeAaron Fox huge games, Suns w/o KD & MORE. LIVE on YouTube!! Add your question or comment: youtube.com/live/-MhPSS02F… – 11:52 AM Brandon Rahbar @BrandonRahbar James Harden reflecting on his time in OKC after becoming #2 all-time in 3PTs made: “Those 3 years really helped in my NBA career… Shout out to KD. Shout out to Russ. And the entire OKC organization for that ground building they gave me.” pic.x.com/PFtEflKUOv – 12:38 AM More on this storyline In a new interview with Rich Kleiman of Kevin Durant’s Boardroom media outlet, Barnes revealed specifics of the deal for the first time. “We signed a very beautiful, high seven-figure deal for a two-year situation to not only pay us for what we accomplished, but built up our company,” Barnes said. -via A
As everyone in Phoenix hones in on a third consecutive postseason together, Ishbia told ESPN this week that he fully expects to sign Durant to a contract extension next offseason and wants the 14-time All-Star to retire as a Sun. “[Durant] loves being in Phoenix, we love having him,” Ishbia told ESPN. “He’s off to an amazing start this season — one of the MVP leaders — and we’re off to a very good start. We expect Kevin to sign an extension, be with us for the long term. We hope he finishes his career here in Phoenix. “You can’t sign a two-year extension this last summer, you can’t do it based on the NBA rules. So we figured after the season we’ll talk about it, take care of it. “Kevin wants to be here, we want Kevin here. There’s never been one grumbling of anything different.”
Source: ESPN
Source: ESPN
What’s the buzz on Twitter?
Emiliano Carchia @Sportando
Phoenix Suns: Ishbia expects long-term deal for Durant sportando.basketball/en/phoenix-sun… – 5:42 AM
Phoenix Suns: Ishbia expects long-term deal for Durant sportando.basketball/en/phoenix-sun… – 5:42 AM
Duane Rankin @DuaneRankin
Phoenix Suns injury report: Durant, Beal out vs. Knicks, Jusuf Nurkic questionable (w/videos) #Suns azcentral.com/story/sports/n… via @azcentral pic.x.com/LGgYSCjA5m – 9:29 PM
Phoenix Suns injury report: Durant, Beal out vs. Knicks, Jusuf Nurkic questionable (w/videos) #Suns azcentral.com/story/sports/n… via @azcentral pic.x.com/LGgYSCjA5m – 9:29 PM
Gerald Bourguet @GeraldBourguet
Suns list Jusuf Nurkic (left ankle sprain) as questionable for tomorrow’s game against the Knicks. Kevin Durant (left calf strain), Bradley Beal (left calf strain) and Collin Gillespie (right ankle fracture) remain out – 7:35 PM
Suns list Jusuf Nurkic (left ankle sprain) as questionable for tomorrow’s game against the Knicks. Kevin Durant (left calf strain), Bradley Beal (left calf strain) and Collin Gillespie (right ankle fracture) remain out – 7:35 PM
Duane Rankin @DuaneRankin
Suns vs. Knicks injury report:
Jusuf Nurkić (left ankle sprain) QUESTIONABLE.
Bradley Beal, (left calf strain), Kevin Durant (left calf strain), Collin Gillespie (right ankle fracture) OUT. #Suns – 7:34 PM
Suns vs. Knicks injury report:
Jusuf Nurkić (left ankle sprain) QUESTIONABLE.
Bradley Beal, (left calf strain), Kevin Durant (left calf strain), Collin Gillespie (right ankle fracture) OUT. #Suns – 7:34 PM
Duane Rankin @DuaneRankin
Why Devin Booker, Phoenix Suns keep losing without injured Kevin Durant and Bradley Beal (w/videos) #Suns azcentral.com/story/sports/n… via @azcentral – 5:05 PM
Why Devin Booker, Phoenix Suns keep losing without injured Kevin Durant and Bradley Beal (w/videos) #Suns azcentral.com/story/sports/n… via @azcentral – 5:05 PM
Ben Golliver @BenGolliver
The Celtics are taking way more threes than twos. Young stars are hoisting like never before. Kevin Durant wonders: What’s a bad shot these days?
The NBA’s three-point boom has reached extreme heights. How many is too many? @washingtonpost @PostSports
washingtonpost.com/sports/2024/11… – 1:42 PM
The Celtics are taking way more threes than twos. Young stars are hoisting like never before. Kevin Durant wonders: What’s a bad shot these days?
The NBA’s three-point boom has reached extreme heights. How many is too many? @washingtonpost @PostSports
washingtonpost.com/sports/2024/11… – 1:42 PM
Duane Rankin @DuaneRankin
“I think we’re still figuring it out.”
Tyus Jones on how Devin Booker is being defended with Kevin Durant and Bradley Beal out and what adjustments the Phoenix Suns need to make.
Suns 1-5 without Durant (calf). Have lost last four games without Durant and Beal (calf). #Suns pic.x.com/8yn8SUre7q – 1:19 PM
“I think we’re still figuring it out.”
Tyus Jones on how Devin Booker is being defended with Kevin Durant and Bradley Beal out and what adjustments the Phoenix Suns need to make.
Suns 1-5 without Durant (calf). Have lost last four games without Durant and Beal (calf). #Suns pic.x.com/8yn8SUre7q – 1:19 PM
Duane Rankin @DuaneRankin
What we learned as Phoenix Suns keep losing minus Durant and Beal, this time to Orlando Magic (w/videos) #Suns azcentral.com/story/sports/n… via @azcentral – 11:14 AM
What we learned as Phoenix Suns keep losing minus Durant and Beal, this time to Orlando Magic (w/videos) #Suns azcentral.com/story/sports/n… via @azcentral – 11:14 AM
Gerald Bourguet @GeraldBourguet
The Suns are 1-5 since KD went down. Free for everyone, I wrote about some negative takeaways from this stretch (Devin Booker and a few role players going cold), plus a few silver linings like Josh Okogie, Oso Ighodaro, and the power of perspective: bit.ly/4hTr2W2 – 11:02 AM
The Suns are 1-5 since KD went down. Free for everyone, I wrote about some negative takeaways from this stretch (Devin Booker and a few role players going cold), plus a few silver linings like Josh Okogie, Oso Ighodaro, and the power of perspective: bit.ly/4hTr2W2 – 11:02 AM
Duane Rankin @DuaneRankin
Dunn follow dunk got Durant to stand up on the bench. Suns down 73-59. #Suns – 10:34 PM
Dunn follow dunk got Durant to stand up on the bench. Suns down 73-59. #Suns – 10:34 PM
Duane Rankin @DuaneRankin
Phoenix Suns have hit with rookies Ryan Dunn and Oso Ighodaro.
Both starting tonight vs. Magic
Dunn’s defense, activity. Came down to earth from 3, but been starting for injured Kevin Durant.
Ighodaro 1st career start with Jusuf Nurkic (ankle) out. Passer, finisher, IQ. #Suns – 9:01 PM
Phoenix Suns have hit with rookies Ryan Dunn and Oso Ighodaro.
Both starting tonight vs. Magic
Dunn’s defense, activity. Came down to earth from 3, but been starting for injured Kevin Durant.
Ighodaro 1st career start with Jusuf Nurkic (ankle) out. Passer, finisher, IQ. #Suns – 9:01 PM
Gerald Bourguet @GeraldBourguet
The Suns list Jusuf Nurkic (left ankle sprain) as out for today’s game against the Magic. Kevin Durant (left calf strain), Bradley Beal (left calf strain) and Collin Gillespie (right ankle fracture) remain out as well. No Grayson Allen on the injury report – 3:35 PM
The Suns list Jusuf Nurkic (left ankle sprain) as out for today’s game against the Magic. Kevin Durant (left calf strain), Bradley Beal (left calf strain) and Collin Gillespie (right ankle fracture) remain out as well. No Grayson Allen on the injury report – 3:35 PM
Duane Rankin @DuaneRankin
Suns injury report vs. Magic
Bradley Beal (left calf strain) OUT.
Kevin Durant (left calf strain) OUT.
Jusuf Nurkic (left ankle sprain) OUT.
Collin Gillespie (right ankle fracture) OUT. #Suns – 3:35 PM
Suns injury report vs. Magic
Bradley Beal (left calf strain) OUT.
Kevin Durant (left calf strain) OUT.
Jusuf Nurkic (left ankle sprain) OUT.
Collin Gillespie (right ankle fracture) OUT. #Suns – 3:35 PM
CBS NBA @CBSSportsNBA
LIVE in 10! @JohnGonzalez @sportsreiter 9amPT/12pmET talking All Star changes, Inside the NBA, DeAaron Fox huge games, Suns w/o KD & MORE.
LIVE on YouTube!! Add your question or comment:
youtube.com/live/-MhPSS02F… – 11:52 AM
LIVE in 10! @JohnGonzalez @sportsreiter 9amPT/12pmET talking All Star changes, Inside the NBA, DeAaron Fox huge games, Suns w/o KD & MORE.
LIVE on YouTube!! Add your question or comment:
youtube.com/live/-MhPSS02F… – 11:52 AM
Brandon Rahbar @BrandonRahbar
James Harden reflecting on his time in OKC after becoming #2 all-time in 3PTs made:
“Those 3 years really helped in my NBA career… Shout out to KD. Shout out to Russ. And the entire OKC organization for that ground building they gave me.”
pic.x.com/PFtEflKUOv – 12:38 AM
James Harden reflecting on his time in OKC after becoming #2 all-time in 3PTs made:
“Those 3 years really helped in my NBA career… Shout out to KD. Shout out to Russ. And the entire OKC organization for that ground building they gave me.”
pic.x.com/PFtEflKUOv – 12:38 AM
More on this storyline
In a new interview with Rich Kleiman of Kevin Durant’s Boardroom media outlet, Barnes revealed specifics of the deal for the first time. “We signed a very beautiful, high seven-figure deal for a two-year situation to not only pay us for what we accomplished, but built up our company,” Barnes said. -via Awful Announcing / November 20, 2024
Mat Ishbia: “When I traded for Kevin Durant, it was a no-brainer. A thousand times out of a thousand, you make that trade. You get Kevin Durant on your team with three and a half years left on his contract from the time I traded for him, and you put him next to Devin Booker, and you go play. And I feel great about the trade then. I feel better about it even now. It’s been a great thing for our organization, and I can’t wait to see it come to fruition the way we all envision it.” -via YouTube / November 20, 2024
“I feel like people talk about legacies too much. Me and Kev [Durant] are having a talk about that stuff all the time because people say a lot of stuff about his legacy and mine. So, you’re telling me that in 20 years, we’re going to look back at Kev and say, ‘Oh, he wasn’t one of the best to ever do it because he didn’t win a championship without Steph [Curry].’ That’s what you’re telling me? There’s no way you’re going to say that. There’s no way in 20 years you’re going to look back at me and be like, ‘If he never won a EuroLeague championship or never made another All-EuroLeague Team, he wasn’t that good because he didn’t win a championship.’ -via BasketNews / November 20, 2024
