And after this trade yesterday, the Nets championship odds said it 3 to 1, according to Caesar's sports book by William Hill, the second shortest in the sport, only behind the Lakers.

Yesterday, after the Nets beat the Knicks, Kevin Durant was asked about reuniting with his former.

Okay, see, teammate?

Mhm looking into the past, What was it like to play with James?

What do you remember about him as a teammate?

Because you have played together?

It was fun.

Well, he didn't expand on that thought, particularly interestingly.

But here is the one and only Malika Andrews who covers that team and all of them for us.

So well, here in ESPN, how would you describe the expectations the Nets have now set up for themselves?

Malika putting together what they hope will at some point be this terrific trio.

Hey, well, he didn't expand very much, Kevin.

Kevin didn't.

But I had to ask the question, right.

Greeny.

I think the Nets expectations for this season they haven't changed all that much from what they have been saying since day one.

They've been pretty explicit.

What they're setting out to do here is win a championship.

And yes, that's the goal that every single team says at the beginning of the season.

But for them, it feels much more realistic.

And yesterday, when they were asked about that, they continued to say that that is what they're moving towards.

Now it's going to be about making these guys gel, making these personalities gel, so they continue to move towards that goal.

But really, that's where they feel that they're headed.

But because the trade was an official, they didn't expand very much on how James Harden is going to fit into or perhaps make it easier or push them closer to achieving that goal.

Graney right?

And and so the process of jelling amongst the three superstars can't really begin until the third superstar is there.

So you're around them as much as anybody is.

Do you have any sense of where we are with Kyrie Irving and when we should expect him to come back?

Well, we know Adrian was you're asking.

I reported that it is.

He is not expected to return to the team on Saturday against Orlando, but remember at this point because the video of him, apparently at a family birthday party, is in the hands of the league.

And they're reviewing whether or not that is a breach of their protocols that say that you cannot go to a bar.

If you're a player, you cannot go to a club.

If you're a player, you cannot be a gatherings of 15 or more people.

If you're a player because of that, they are the ones who are going to be dictating his return to the court schedule in many ways, because if he is to quarantine, if he is found to have broken those rules, that would further delay his return to the court.

So that's where we're at right now.

Greeny is waiting for the league to make a decision on whether or not Kyrie Irving will need to quarantine before he can return, and then a timeline will become a little bit more clear.

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