Fox Sports' Ric Bucher reported details about the negotiations Wednesday on his On The Ball podcast (via HoopsHype).
"[Nets governor] Joe Tsai has already shown he's willing to play hardball with Kyrie by taking a max extension off the table almost immediately," Bucher said. "Now, part of that may be Kyrie's doing. I'm told he wanted his new contract to guarantee he wouldn't have to play more than 60 games in a season and would not have to play any back-to-backs, which he apparently referred to as inhumane."
If they will let this happen then it's not just soft NBA anymore but team management became soft too.
Players now are demanding too much like their salaries are too cheap. They are being paid multi-millions of dollars and yet they can still make dramatic demands like this one.
No back-to-back games? Wow. I want to find out what kind of drug they are taking and why it is not being traced by the health department of the NBA.
They are being paid and yet they are the ones who are very demanding. I just hope that the NBA will not allow players to just do things like this. They demand too much that they are the ones who are benefitting but the team aren't at all or maybe that is how much they don't want to play with the team to the point that they will demand everything just to push the Nets to trade both of them. With the behavior these 2 players are, I think it would be beneficial for the team if they will just trade these 2 and just rebuild again.
Sooner or later the NBA commissioner will have to do something about it. He said publicly that he doesn't want how Durant demanding a trade after signing a huge contract. Sooner or later we will see some rule change, at least to have team owners get a better deal when they sign this kind of players.
And since they can't be simply be traded right away because the Nets wants more, and you can't blame them. Again, it boils down on the money they put in the line and they want something in return, like future draft picks, because that's what the lost as well when they sign the 2.