Report: The Miami Heat Would Need To Keep All-Stars Together To Land Kevin Durant

Brooklyn Nets forward Kevin Durant has made it clear he wants to remain on a contending team. 

He recently requested a trade from the Nets and is drawing interest from nearly every team in the NBA, including the Miami Heat. A recent report suggested the Heat would need to find a way to keep Jimmy Butler, Kyle Lowry and Bam Adebayo to have any shot of landing Durant. 

“Durant, it seems, would only want to play on a Heat team that includes Jimmy Butler, Bam Adebayo and Kyle Lowry,” Sam Amick of The Athletic wrote. So even if the Heat were willing to move Butler in a deal as a way of satisfying the Nets’ (understandably pricey) request, doing so would leave Durant discontented from the start.”