Durant traded to Houston for Green, Brooks, #10 pick, and multiple 2nd rounders

Basically Spurs extracted themselves early from the convo and Heat were not interested in giving up Kel'el Ware.

/End.

 

Very early on, we decided the deal had to look a certain way. We articulated that. Then, I don’t want to say we were done, but to a certain degree... that’s kind of where we were.

If that ended up being something they (the Suns) wanted to pursue, then great. And if not, then we understood. So, there wasn’t a ton of back and forth. I don’t know what it was like on their end, but from ours... making money work in the NBA is hard. There were very limited ways to do it.

Once we figured that piece of it out, I think we knew from a value position we were giving what we thought was a lot. I think they did great in the trade. I think we gave them a tremendous amount of value. That was it from our perspective, and they had to canvass the market, and do whatever they had to do on their end to get comfortable. Eventually, they did, and then the deal happened.

But it wasn’t one of those three weeks of negotiations, at least not from my perspective.

Anyone remember that Gambadoro guy being on a campaign about how the Suns weren't happy with the offers and wanted more. Sounds like they were just trying to get the Rockets to blink but Stone stood his ground.

 

In Stone we trust. By all observations this guy is meticulous, detailed, and good at negotiating.