{"id":31977,"date":"2025-02-09T01:38:43","date_gmt":"2025-02-09T01:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=31977"},"modified":"2025-02-09T01:38:43","modified_gmt":"2025-02-09T01:38:43","slug":"breaking-details-of-steph-curry-kevin-durant-talk-before-failed-warriors-trade-leaked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=31977","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Details of Steph Curry-Kevin Durant Talk Before Failed Warriors Trade Leaked"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-featured-container-id\">\n<div id=\"post-featured\">\n<div>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/GettyImages-2165735482-e1739060697166.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 820px) 95vw, 780px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/GettyImages-2165735482-e1739060697166.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780 780w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/GettyImages-2165735482-e1739060697166.jpg?quality=15&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1100 1100w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/GettyImages-2165735482-e1739060697166.jpg?quality=35&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1350 1350w\" alt=\"Details of Steph Curry-Kevin Durant Talk Before Failed Warriors Trade Leaked\" width=\"780\" height=\"520\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Getty<\/p>\n<p>Former Warriors teammates Stephen Curry (L) and Kevin Durant celebrate after scoring in the men&#8217;s Gold Medal basketball match between France and USA during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Not even Stephen Curry could persuade Kevin Durant to return to the Golden State Warriors.<\/p>\n<p>Durant delivered the bad news to the Warriors in a conversation with Curry, ESPN\u2019s Brian Windhorst and Ramona Shelburne reported on Friday, Feb. 7.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCurry wanted a read on how Durant would feel about returning to the team he had chosen to leave after the 2019 Finals, sources said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDurant told him it didn\u2019t \u201cfeel right\u201d and that this \u201cwasn\u2019t the time\u201d to revisit their basketball partnership, according to multiple sources with knowledge of the conversations. He added he was happy in Phoenix and wasn\u2019t looking to play elsewhere,\u201d Windhorst and Shelburne wrote.<\/p>\n<p>The Warriors had a three-team trade framework in conversations with the Miami Heat and the Phoenix Suns that would have landed them Durant. It would have been for a massive package that included rising star Jonathan Kuminga and multiple picks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe three-way talks even expanded to loop in Washington. Those talks included Butler, Warriors forward Jonathan Kuminga, Wizards center Jonas Valanciunas, two first-round picks (from the Warriors) and two second-round picks (one each from the Heat and Warriors), and pick swaps going to the Suns, sources said. The Warriors would\u2019ve received Durant, while the Heat could\u2019ve received Wiggins, Cleveland\u2019s 2025 first-round pick (via Phoenix), Dennis Schroder and Kyle Anderson,\u201d\u00a0Windhorst and Shelburne wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately for the Warriors, they were able to execute their backup plan and acquired Jimmy Butler without giving up Kuminga.<\/p>\n<p>Durant, who was blindsided by the trade talks, could become available again this summer if the Suns couldn\u2019t mend their relationship and they continue to flop. With Butler, the Warriors have what the Suns want and Kuminga along with multiple first-round picks to use in star chasing.<\/p>\n<h2>Jimmy Butler Acknowledges Warriors is Steph Curry\u2019s Team<\/h2>\n<p>As Butler gets a fresh start with the Warriors, who gave him what he wanted \u2014 a two-year, $112 million extension \u2014 he acknowledged that this is and will always be Curry\u2019s team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe good,\u201d\u00a0Butler told reporters\u00a0during his introductory press conference when asked about his basketball fit with Curry. \u201cPass the ball to Steph. And get out of the way. Easy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Butler, who was the main star in two Heat teams that went to the NBA Finals, arrived in Golden State ready to be Curry\u2019s sidekick.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs far as playing with Steph, I mean everybody knows he\u2019s the greatest shooter in the world, greatest shooter in history,\u201d Butler said. \u201cThat makes my job a lot easier. I probably got a lot more space out there, but more than anything I think it\u2019s always going to be a team effort. We all got a lot more space out there so we\u2019ll see how it goes.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Steph Curry Welcomes the Addition of a \u2018Hungry\u2019 Jimmy Butler<\/h2>\n<p>While the Warriors failed to get Durant \u2014 the Finals MVP of two of their last four championship runs \u2014 back, Butler is not too shabby to be their fallback option.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBringing Jimmy in like he\u2019s here for a reason to help try to get us to the next level,\u201d\u00a0Curry told reporters after the Warriors lost\u00a0120-112 to the\u00a0Los Angeles Lakers\u00a0on Thursday, Feb. 6. \u201cIt\u2019s going to look different. We have an opportunity to kind of solidify [our] rotation and make the necessary adjustments from play calls to just different sets that can feature him and his skill set and get us to a level where we\u2019re playing consistent basketball.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know he\u2019s hungry to get back out there and play. He\u2019s had a wild up and down year for a lot of reasons and I\u2019m excited for him to be a part of what we do and [have] ultimate confidence that we\u2019ll be able to figure it out. All you want is a chance and I think he can help us get there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chances to get back to the playoffs have been dwindling fast for the Warriors, who have lost 23 of their next 36 games since that 12-3 start. Butler is expected to inject some life to their flailing hopes to get back to the playoffs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Get insights into Stephen Curry&#8217;s conversation with Kevin Durant about his failed return to the Golden State Warriors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":31978,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>BREAKING: Details of Steph Curry-Kevin Durant Talk Before Failed Warriors Trade Leaked - News 365<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=31977\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"BREAKING: Details of Steph Curry-Kevin Durant Talk Before Failed Warriors Trade Leaked - 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