Billy King: Boston trade was about getting to Kevin Durant

Photo by Kent Smith/NBAE via Getty ImagesMatt Sullivan’s book on the Nets - Can’t Knock the Hustle Inside the Season of Protest, Pandemic, and Progress with the Brooklyn Nets’ Superstars of Tomorrow - is out June 21.

But just before the opening tap Saturday night, he dropped a nugget that “didn’t fit” in his book, but one that offers an ironic look at two of the signature moves in Nets history, the Boston trade and the Clean Sweep. Not to mention the Nets-Celtics series now underway.

In a series of tweets, Sullivan quotes Billy King as saying the June 2013 trade for Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce and Jason Terry was ultimately about drawing Kevin Durant, then with OKC, to Brooklyn. Indeed, it was…