{"id":146235,"date":"2020-05-03T17:20:13","date_gmt":"2020-05-03T15:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=146235"},"modified":"2020-05-03T17:20:13","modified_gmt":"2020-05-03T15:20:13","slug":"sean-marks-were-never-going-to-push-kevin-durant-to-come-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/sean-marks-were-never-going-to-push-kevin-durant-to-come-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Sean Marks: We&#8217;re never going to push Kevin Durant to come back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brooklyn Nets general manager Sean Marks talks <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newshub.co.nz\/home\/sport\/2020\/05\/basketball-kiwi-sean-marks-ready-for-any-eventuality-after-nba-coronavirus-shutdown.html\">with Newshub<\/a> about the possibility that Kevin Durant will play this season, especially if the season resumes in the last months of the year.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;That&#8217;s a $110m question,&#8221; chuckles Marks. &#8220;In all seriousness, we&#8217;ve tried not to talk about his timeline a lot.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He knows his body better than anybody. Our performance team and training staff have done a tremendous job getting him to this point, but I just don&#8217;t know how coming out of this pandemic will affect anybody, let alone Kevin.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When you&#8217;ve got enough invested in a player like Kevin, we&#8217;re never going to push him to come back. When the timing is right, he&#8217;ll be 100 percent when he gets on the court.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I can tell you this though &#8211; before the pandemic, he looked like Kevin Durant and that&#8217;s a good thing.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>KD signed \u00a0a four-year, $164 million contract with the Nets, with a player option in the last season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KD signed \u00a0a four-year, $164 million contract with the Nets, with a player option in the last season<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[92],"tags":[1085,1501,6458],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-146235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nba","tag-brooklyn-nets","tag-kevin-durant","tag-sean-marks"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146235"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=146235"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=146235"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=146235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}