Rich Kleiman thinks Kevin Durant return this season is ‘unrealistic’

Will Kevin Durant play if and when the NBA season resumes? It continues to sound like a long shot at best.

Rich Kleiman, Durant’s agent and business manager, said he doesn’t anticipate the Brooklyn Nets forward playing until the start of the 2020-21 season, whenever that happens.

“I don’t want to speak for him, but no,” Kleiman said, via Sam Amick and Joe Vardon of The Athletic. “It’s unrealistic. I think anyone should realize that, when you’re looking at just the circumstances and just what he’s coming back from.”

Speculation began to intensify when Nets GM Sean Marks left the door open to a Durant return before the end of the 2019-20 season. Since then, we’ve heard a lot of dissenting opinions. Durant and Kleiman are close, and Kleiman saying it’s probably not happening is probably the firmest denial we’ve gotten yet.