’"Big Three" disbanded following three separate trades over the past two seasons, speculation about where it all went wrong has begun. , James Harden and Kevin Durant – were on the same team but played less than 20 games together. While GM Sean Marks and owner Joe Tsai believed they had the right plan in place, the farthest that the team went was the second round of the playoffs over the last four seasons.
AFTER KEVIN DURANT TRADE, SHANNON SHARPE SUGGESTS ‘SOMETHING IS GOING ON BEHIND THE SCENES IN BROOKLYN’ "The consensus in talking to the other writers after we walked out and listened to him crush the situation and crush the fact that the organization didn’t do more to try and bring him back, the person he was talking to is Kyrie Irving," Friedell said.
While Durant has certainly had his moments with the Nets – this past summer, there seemed a time when he wanted to be done in Brooklyn – Irving’s off-the-court situations have been well-documented and led to games where he didn’t suit up.