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Charles Curtis

The 6 most ridiculous things that derailed the Kevin Durant, Kyrie Irving era for the Brooklyn Nets

To paraphrase (mangle?) the words of T.S. Eliot, the Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving Brooklyn Nets team that was supposed to be a contender ended not with a Mike Breen “BANG!” but a whimper.

KD reportedly requested a trade on Thursday, and the NBA world was completely stunned, as it should be!! Kyrie Irving LITERALLY JUST OPTED IN and said that weird thing about “those who dare to be different lead us into tomorrow.”

As everyone says: This league.

So now that the KD-Kyrie era is over, let’s look back at the ridiculousness that transpired in the past few years:

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