Kevin Durant ends Nets trade demand and agrees to ‘move forward’

• 12-time All-Star had pushed for move away from Brooklyn
• Reports of rift between player and coach and GM had circulated

Kevin Durant will remain a Brooklyn Net and will no longer be available for trade, according to the team's general manager, Sean Marks.

[Head coach] Steve Nash and I, together with Joe Tsai and Clara Wu Tsai, met with Kevin Durant and Rich Kleiman in Los Angeles yesterday," Marks said in a statement released on Tuesday. We have agreed to move forward with our partnership. We are focusing on basketball, with one collective goal in mind: build a lasting franchise to bring a championship to Brooklyn."