Kevin Durant - Seattle

[Colin Loftin]

Durant has received many strong offers and will be narrowing his choices down to the final 3 by tomorrow evening. Make sure to get any offers/updates in before then!

[Colin Loftin]

Kevin has narrowed his three choices down to (in no particular order): Seattle, OKC, and New York.

We appreciate everyone's strong offers, and wanted to announce this in order to allow teams to pursue other options.

[Colin Loftin]

After much deliberation, Kevin has decided he will be joining the Seattle Supersonics on a 1+1 max deal. We thank everyone for their interest and look forward to seeing what Seattle can accomplish this upcoming season!

SEATTLE SUPERSONICS
KEVIN DURANT BID

Agent Colin Loftin and Mr. Kevin Wayne Durant,
First of all, we thank you for considering Seattle as a potential destination this off season.
Secondly, we understand that this must be an extremely difficult decision and we want to make clear that we will respect your wishes no matter what you decide. Obviously, bringing you back home along with last year's Championship would pretty much make up for the tragedy that took over the city of Seattle in 2008 but we do understand that you will be negotiations with many other great teams and their GMs in this league and we just want to make sure that you know that you will remain in the heart of the citizens of Seattle no matter where you choose to play next year.

So, let's get to the point that brought us here today. Why should Superstar Kevin Durant join the Seattle SuperSonics? What do we have to offer that no other team can?

We have more than 1 answer to that question and by the end of the presentation we hope that you will see the vision we have for our team and why we believe now is the perfect time for you to choose Seattle.

PLAYING FOR A CHAMPION

With the departure of the beloved Stan van Gundy, there's only one team in this league that can offer you the possibility of playing for a franchise that has has a EOTY GM and won a Championship, and that's the Seattle Supersonics. When LeBron fell to us at the 8th overall pick at the Inaugural Draft, we believe we were chosen to create a dynasty team that would be told in sim league folklores for decades. With you on board, that dream will almost surely turn into reality.

Supersonics have assembled a team that is built for long-term success. Team has the bird rights for our entire starting line-up to allow for the possibility to keeping the group together as long as we can. There are also several draft picks in the upcoming drafts that can yield talent to contribute or assets to trade. And most important of all, we have Kong, the best assistant GM in history; AKA the visionary that first proposed the crazy fairy tale of Kevin Durant the MVP returning to win a championship for the team that first drafted him.


FIT

It's uncommon for the defending league champion to be as active as we have been in free agency, but we felt like if we wanted to repeat, it was imperative that we needed KD. When you take a look at our roster, it's easy to see why we are so excited at the possibility of having you in the mix. We retain a majority of the core that won the championship including co-Finals MVPs, Kyle Lowry and LeBron James. We cleared enough cap space to offer you the max contract as well as acquiring the 2-time DPOY in Kawhi Leonard. With Kevin on board, our starting line-up would look like this:

PG: Kyle Lowry
SG: Kawhi Leonard
SF: Kevin Durant
PF: LeBron James
C: Gorgui Dieng

Bench: ZaZa Pachulia, JJ Barea, Malachi Richardson

We also have the ability to play many versatile line ups to match up against any team. You, Kawhi and LeBron are all interchangeable at positions 1 through 4 and we believe we can also be very effective going small with LeBron playing 5 at times. LeBron has clearly shown his effectiveness moving to PF and with that, we intend to play a high intensity, up-tempo style of basketball on both sides of the court that will dominate on both sides of the court. Kevin takes over the offense with LeBron contributing on all facets, Lowry acting as the team commander, Leonard defending what's necessary and Dieng showing off his physical attributes in the paint. This team assembled with the wingspan, athleticism and shooting ability will give us an advantage against ANY team in the league inside and out.


FINANCIAL SECURITY

We will offer Kevin Durant a 1+1 MAX contract worth $58,515,000 with 2nd year being a PLAYER OPTION, even if that means losing him next season. We understand that Kevin would benefit going for a 35% max next year and we are perfectly committed in offering him this contract with the intent of bringing him back next season under a long-term max contract. Plus, this will allow Kevin to test his luck elsewhere if we end up falling short of a championship this season. While we understand how tremendous of a task it will be to repeat, we are confident in our abilities to repeat and thus we are willing to take this risk. In addition, since we do not plan on gambling with KD's value to us, we will add in a NO TRADE clause to the offer.

Hopefully, the arguments we presented here today are enough for Kevin to decide in our favor but we will accept his decision either way. Please let us know if there are any questions that he might have regarding our commitment, his role in the team, our determination to win next season or any other related topic.

Hoping for the best,

Seattle SuperSonics.

CONTRACT OFFER
Year 1: $28,200,000
Year 2: $30,315,000 (PO)
Total: $58,515,000

PROMISES:
No trade clause
Championship
Starting position
Great teammates

TEAM SALARY:
Before: $62,088,782
After: $90,288,782

[Allan Houston]

While unhappy with your decision, Kevin, we respect your right to choose, and we thank you for making a timely decision that allows us to start to make moves in an attempt to recover from your departure.

gg John Stockton

[Gregg Popovich]

Seattle is the new Miami

[John Stockton]

We are beyond thrilled to hear that Kevin has chosen to play with the Seattle Supersonics next season! We are in the process of creating something special and we wanted KD to be a part of it. While we will celebrate this signing for now, we fully understand that the work will begin now as we will have the pressure on us to try and win to bring Kevin back next year.


The franchise would like to recognize Kong, our tireless asst GM, who first had laid out the plan to bring Kevin to Seattle. It was a lot of work and this wouldn't be possible without him. We also want to thank Agent Loftin and the rest of the player agents for their efforts!

[Gregg Popovich]

Jul 18, 2016 13:24:34 GMT -5 John Stockton said:

We are beyond thrilled to hear that Kevin has chosen to play with the Seattle Supersonics next season! We are in the process of creating something special and we wanted KD to be a part of it. While we will celebrate this signing for now, we fully understand that the work will begin now as we will have the pressure on us to try and win to bring Kevin back next year.


The franchise would like to recognize Kong, our tireless asst GM, who first had laid out the plan to bring Kevin to Seattle. It was a lot of work and this wouldn't be possible without him. We also want to thank Agent Loftin and the rest of the player agents for their efforts

I would like to give in my resignation letter now.

[Stan Van Gundy]

Jul 18, 2016 13:24:34 GMT -5 John Stockton said:

We are beyond thrilled to hear that Kevin has chosen to play with the Seattle Supersonics next season! We are in the process of creating something special and we wanted KD to be a part of it. While we will celebrate this signing for now, we fully understand that the work will begin now as we will have the pressure on us to try and win to bring Kevin back next year.


The franchise would like to recognize Kong, our tireless asst GM, who first had laid out the plan to bring Kevin to Seattle. It was a lot of work and this wouldn't be possible without him. We also want to thank Agent Loftin and the rest of the player agents for their efforts!

this is beyond my ability, even if I will stay in d720 as GM of DET, still i can't match your team..
goodluck man, your team is so strong..