Well, let me tell ya somethin’ about this Kevin Durant fella and all this “trade” business. I ain’t no fancy sports expert, but I watch my TV, and even I can see somethin’ big happened. It’s all folks been talkin’ ’bout, like when the well water gets that funny taste after a big rain. Kevin Durant trade, they keep sayin’, like it’s some kinda big secret or somethin’. Heck, everyone and their dog knows about it now.
First off, this Kevin fella, he was playin’ for them Nets over in Brooklyn, I think. My grandson told me that’s a big city. Anyway, he’s a real good basketball player, see? One of them fellas that throws the ball in the hoop all the time. But seems like he got a bit fidgety, like a hen on a hot griddle. They say he wanted a “new challenge,” whatever that means. Maybe he just got tired of eatin’ the same corn, you know? Folk get that way sometimes.
So, this Kevin fella, he starts makin’ noises ’bout wantin’ to go play somewhere else. Imagine that! Like one of my prize-winning chickens suddenly decidin’ she wants to lay her eggs in the neighbor’s coop. Wouldn’t make no sense, but that’s what this Kevin did, I reckon.
- He said he wanted out
- Then the team starts talkin’
- Then everyone got their feathers ruffled
Now, here’s where it gets all complicated, like tryin’ to untangle a ball of yarn the cat got ahold of. This “trade” thing, it ain’t like swappin’ chickens for eggs. It’s more like swappin’ the whole darn farm! They start throwin’ names around, Mikal Bridges this, Cameron Johnson that. Jae Crowder too, a fella I heard was a bit grumpy, like my old mule after a long day in the fields.
And then, oh Lordy, then they start talkin’ ’bout them “draft picks.” Now, that’s somethin’ I can’t rightly understand. Seems like they’re tradin’ promises for players that ain’t even playin’ yet! It’s like countin’ your chickens before they hatch, only it’s way more complicated. They got first-round picks, swap picks, unprotected picks… makes my head spin faster than a weathervane in a tornado. My grandson say they traded a whole bunch of chances to get new young players in the future for Kevin. Sounds like a gamble to me, but then again, I ain’t never been one for gamblin’, cept maybe that one time at the county fair, but that’s a story for another day.
So, after all this fussin’ and feudin’, they finally made a deal. Kevin got shipped off to Phoenix, to play with them Suns. Now, Phoenix, that’s a hot place, they say. Hotter than my kitchen stove on a Sunday mornin’ when I’m makin’ biscuits. Seems like he wanted to go there all along, like a hound dog chasin’ a rabbit. He probably got tired of all that cold city weather up in Brooklyn, just like my arthritis gets worse in the winter.
And what did them Nets get for this Kevin fella? Well, like I said, them players, Bridges and Johnson and that Crowder fella, and all them draft picks. Seems like a lot to me, but what do I know? My grandson says the Nets got a good deal, said they got a lot of chances to get new young players and that’s real important. He’s a smart boy, that one, always readin’ them sports papers.
Kevin Durant injury, that was another thing they were yappin’ about. Seems he hurt his knee, like my cousin Jed when he fell off the roof fixin’ the shingles. They say he might not play for a while, and that made folks nervous, like a cat in a room full of rockin’ chairs. After all, they traded a whole heap for this fella, and they want him playin’, not sittin’ on the bench like a bump on a log.
Now, they say Phoenix got themselves a real good team with Kevin. A “contender,” they call it. That means they got a good chance to win it all, I guess. Like havin’ the best darn tomatoes in the whole county fair. But it ain’t gonna be easy. There’s lots of other good teams out there, and they’re all hungry for a win, just like my chickens when I scatter feed in the yard.
So, that’s the story of this Kevin Durant trade as best as I can tell ya. It was a big to-do, lots of folks talkin’, lots of players movin’ around, and lots of them draft picks changin’ hands. Whether it was a good deal or a bad deal, well, only time will tell. Just like plantin’ seeds in the spring, you gotta wait and see what grows. But one thing’s for sure, it sure gave folks somethin’ to talk about, and that’s somethin’ in itself, ain’t it? And that’s all I got to say ‘bout that, I need to go feed my chickens now.
