The inevitable Kyrie Irving trade by the Brooklyn Nets almost certainly won't occur until after they resolve a trade of Kevin Durant.

"The Nets don't know what they're trading Kevin Durant for," said Brian Windhorst. "They may not want to do a trade with Kyrie Irving that takes on money. You may take on a bunch of money when you do a Kevin Durant trade. You don't know what your books are going to look like.

"Kyrie allegedly wanted to be in Brooklyn. Look at the way he treated the dudes across the river there. What happens if he gets traded to a place he doesn't want to be this year?

"His value in a trade is just very low. Difficulty to trade for him very high. Again, we're looking at the crossover there. It's a very narrow thing. When you run that simulation over and over, you keep getting Lakers, Lakers, Lakers.

"Also, the Nets have no interest in accommodating Kyrie Irving. They have no interest in doing it. If it comes up maybe a three-team trade or a four-team trade to get the Nets satisfied with what they want. To get them maybe a start. To take draft picks from Phoenix and reroute them somewhere else... Kyrie might get thrown into that four-team trade just as salary ballast. He's going to be used a tool to help the Nets. He is not going to be used for a player to trade for value. Very unlikely you're going to get anything of value. Maybe a draft pick or two. And he's not going to be used to accommodate. 

"He's going to have to sit and wait for the Durant situation to play out whether it takes three days or three weeks. And that's just the reality of it. But in the end of it, when all that smoke clears, it is true he could be a Laker. That's definitely still on the table."

It would be in the best interest of Irving to be traded to the Lakers as they would then inherit his Bird rights whereas a trade and buyout with another team limits his contract options.