The Brooklyn Nets are planning to target Kevin Durant in the summer of 2016 when he can become a free agent.
According to the New York Daily News, the Nets have every intention of going after the man now represented by one-time minority owner Jay Z's Roc Nation Sports firm.
The newspaper adds the Nets could be committed to no salary by then,depending on whether Deron Williams picks up his one-year option for the 2016-17 season.
Currently, Durant plays in Oklahoma City, one of the league's smallest markets, similar to the situation Williams once found himself in when he starred for the Utah Jazz.
"To me, it really wasn't big market or small market," Williams told The News. I got traded here. I don't know if I would've looked here if I wasn't traded here. For someone like Durant, I think it makes a bigger difference because of the endorsements he'd command in a market like this. I mean, look at what he's already doing in Oklahoma City."
Williams added the hardest thing he experienced in playing in a small market was attracting free agents. "People get a bad perception of Salt Lake City," he told The News. "That's what I was talking about. It's not so much the size of the market. It's the perception which is like, 'Mormon, no fun.'"
Durant, meanwhile, has been noncommittal about his future, only insisting that the decision he makes will be solely his own.
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