I’m tempted to start off this column in which I argue that the Raptors should in fact leverage their future for Kevin Durant with: because he’s Kevin freaking Durant. And then say: thank you for reading. And then show you an advertisement of some betting odds to indicate that the column is indeed finished.
But the reality of trading away your franchise's future for a 33-year-old win-now player is always more complicated than that, even if he is arguably the best basketball player on earth.
Over the last few days, since Durant reportedly requested a trade out of Brooklyn three years after his experiment to team up with Kyrie Irving and create a superteam with James Harden failed, the Toronto Raptors have come up as a natural landing spot for the Slim Reaper.