With every waking day, the Brooklyn Nets inch one step closer towards pairing Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving in black-and-white jerseys. It’s safe to say that the Nets recruitment process has been anything but typical.
Mutual interest between Irving and the Nets has been public knowledge since early May. According to the New York Times’ Marc Stein, one of Irving’s leading recruiters was backup point guard Spencer Dinwiddie.
Dinwiddie’s efforts appear to have paid off. The hunted has now become the hunter; per Bleacher Report’s Ric Bucher, Kyrie Irving “is pressing (his close friend) Durant to join him with the Nets.