Brooklyn Nets Receive: G Jaylen Brown, C/F Al Horford

Boston Celtics Receive: F Kevin Durant

Now, it’s time for Boston Celtics fans to gather their pitchforks.

Obviously, this trade assumes that the Boston Celtics don’t win an NBA championship. In fact, they probably wouldn’t take a measure this drastic unless they fail to get past the Bucks in the second round. In that event, we shouldn’t rule anything out.

Adding Durant at the cost of Brown would be quite the drastic measure. It makes the Celtics older. At this stage in each player’s respective career, it may be a compromise on defense too. Still, the idea of trying to contain

Jayson Tatum and Durant at the same time should be giving opposing head coaches headaches just for the fact that this article was written.

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Again: this almost definitely will not happen. We can’t emphasize that enough. Still, we wouldn’t rule anything out. It’s worth noting that Durant almost signed with Boston when he eventually chose the Golden State Warriors so long ago.

Maybe he’ll find his way there after all.