The probability of Kevin Durant, Brooklyn Nets player, returning this summer is highly unlikely due to the fact that he has a ruptured Achilles. To confirm things his long time business partner Rich Kleiman has said it is very unlikely for him to return this summer and help push the Nets into a playoff push.
“Honestly, not very realistic from my standpoint, and not even spoken about,” Kleiman said.
When he was playing with the Warriors last season he tore his Achilles in the NBA Finals against the Raptors, the Nets general manager Sean Marks also confirmed saying he will be missing this season due to the injury.
Since the NBA is on-hold right now due to the coronavirus, or COVID-19, it is not expected to re-open until mid to late June. That is the best timeline for the NBA season currently.
Now what is interesting is the fact that Durant’s 12-month recovery would be June but his partner Kleiman wants to be conservative about his injury:
“It feels like (Durant playing in the 2019-20 season) clearly was not something that was in the cards prior to all this,” Kleiman said. “And now, I think just like the rest of the world, it’s hard to take anything more than day by day.
“I think that Kevin is going to figure out the space that he needs to be in to continue to rehab during this time. But even that is hard to answer at this point, with the new kind of rules that were put in place last night.”
The good news for Durant is that when he is healthy again, probably next season, he will be able to play with DeAndre Jordan and Kyrie Irving again. When he does return, along with Kyrie, they will be a force to reckon with on the court.
