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Flex from Jersey New Pod: KD to Suns Updated! - New Pod Abridged



Here is the pod: https://open.spotify.com/episode/030YzEP...M_vpA7rvjg&utm_source=copy-link

New Pod Abridged:

@ 4:15 Tongue and Cheek: It was tongue and cheek when he said KD may happen on Monday, July 4th, "Expect some fireworks." Streamable link here of him saying it: https://streamable.com/cqtdq8

@ 7:15 Negotiations; don't feed into national media non-sense like Woj and Shams

@ 10:29 Says pay attention to the Kyrie trade as the proverbial white flag for the Nets; sticks strong to "If KD wants to go to PHX, then he is going to PHX." The host, not Flex, equates it to the Harden trades.

@ 12:10 Nets have a trump card that they can just run it back as long as they have Kyrie. Nets want to finalize the KD trade first then go do the Kyrie trade.

@ 13:24 KD & Rich Kleiman has been very clear that he only wants PHX; he says Nets will be the only other team and Flex does not see him playing for the Nets again

@ 15:15 Goes through the Nets hypothetical that kicking the can down the road and bringing KD back to the team lowers KD's value

@ 16:14 Flex states that BEN SIMMONS is being SHOPPED and does not want to be in BKN

@ 17 Flex states that he talked to someone close to the deal that it may take weeks for the deal to finalize; says Nets have no control beyond timetable of how long it takes; says this deal being held up is not good for agents, players, and the NBA

@ 23:30 Nets love Donovan Mitchell. Flex says Donovan Mitchell wants out of Utah and would love to be in BKN.

@ 26:30 Going to deactivate his account when KD becomes a PHX Sun.

@ 33:35 Tripling down; sticking with 99% certainty that KD will be a Sun.

@35 Flex believes talks will intensify at Summer League; does not guarantee it

Thanks for posting.  Who knows if true.  But if so, the audacity of Ben Simmons to think it is important to let a team know where he wants to play is ridiculous.   How about showing you can still play first.