Anthony Edwards is not involved in recruiting Kevin Durant to Minnesota

The Kings’ DeMar DeRozan is another former All-Star who is widely perceived to be available via trade and who could emerge as a fallback trade target for teams that miss out on Durant. -via marcstein.substack.com / June 18, 2025

Teams such as Houston and San Antonio simply see little need to make asset-rich offers for Durant when A) they know that the Suns face self-imposed pressure to try to assemble a deal that delivers even half as much as they gave up to acquire the future Hall of Famer in February 2023 and B) both teams have long-held reservations about bidding aggressively for a player who will be 37 in September … and when their respective cores are so much younger. -via marcstein.substack.com / June 18, 2025

So, you think we’re getting to a point of either a best-and-brightest offer all the way around, or could you see a dark horse coming in here—someone we haven’t talked about?” Sam Amick: “Well, it’s again the question of: does Kevin change his stance on any of the teams not on his list? Now, I keep making this distinction. My understanding is you have the list—the thing his camp chooses to leak to the media—and then you have the real stuff, which is what Kevin is telling people. And we’ve come across some of that, and there’s reason to believe he’s looking at San Antonio above the rest. Now, as you know, Dave, because you and I lived it with the Fox trade, we just saw how the Spurs had zero intention or willingness to give up anything on their roster—let alone anybody in their young core. I don’t know that that has changed all that much. The way it’s put to me: they’re not going to go all in to get Kevin.” -via YouTube / June 18, 2025

“Spears said this yesterday, I did not see it get picked up out there so I’m glad he’s repeating it,” added Brian Windhorst. “That’s legitimately an important piece of information. Ant Edwards is not recruiting Kevin Durant. Kevin Durant says he doesn’t want to be in Minnesota. The deal is not done. This is not heading towards Minnesota. Obviously things can change. This is not heading like Durant is going to Minnesota. Spears is making it very clear the way Ant is feeling.” -via RealGM / June 18, 2025

Do you think social media has made people harder to impress when it comes to the Dunk Contest — almost like there’s a filter now where nothing feels new or exciting? And is there still a way to save it?” Jason Richardson: Yeah I think social media kind of does that. Because now no longer guys are doing these dunks and you can see people doing these dunks in camps and in the summertime; now you have competition of professional dunkers now and when you see some of these guys and some of things that they can do, it’s amazing and now you have an unrealistic expectation of wanting NBA players doing what those guys are doing and they’re training to do that. And so, in parts it hurts the Slam Dunk Contest in a sense that, Hey. Why isn’t Anthony Edwards in there taking it between his legs, 360 and then doing a tomahawk all at the same time? And people are like, Well… he can’t do that. And others will be like, Well, I saw a professional dunker do that. So I think it’s kind of hard because social media has almost kind of tainted us because we’ve seen so many guys that are doing so many spectacular dunks out there. -via ScoopB.com / June 17, 2025

Jorge Sierra: Shai Gilgeous-Alexander passed all these players in playoff scoring tonight: Tracy McGrady Mychal Thompson Anthony Edwards Archie Clark Jermaine O’Neal Paul Silas Bradley Beal Sean Elliott Cedric Maxwell Kevin Love Rolando Blackman He’s No. 205 all-time now. -via Bluesky / June 16, 2025