Kevin Durant trade suggestion includes Phoenix Suns' Mikal Bridges, QuikTrip, Wawa
We're seen some interesting trade proposals for Kevin Durant since it was reported that the Brooklyn Nets star wanted a trade, and that the Phoenix Suns were his preferred next team.
But one we saw on Tuesday might just take the cake … err … Snackle.
In the suggested trade, the Suns would receive Kevin Durant, while the Brooklyn Nets would receive Tobias Harris from the Philadelphia 76ers and Jae Crowder from the Suns, along with protection removed from Philadelphia's 2027 first-round pick from the trade for James Harden.
The 76ers would land Mikal Bridges and Landry Shamet from Phoenix.
Also included in the deal? A couple of convenience stores.
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VOTE: Should the #Suns include Mikal Bridges in a trade for the #Nets' Kevin Durant? (#NBA trade suggestion includes Bridges, QT: https://t.co/dxNP8NsUFA) @azcentral
— azcentral sports (@azcsports) August 3, 2022
Why this trade works:
-Suns get KD
-Brooklyn also gets the protection removed from Philly’s 2027 1st rounder from the Harden trade AND a QT from Phoenix to replace any Bodega
-@mikal_bridges finally gets to reunite with Wawa pic.twitter.com/MS1Bfrax0H— QuikTrip (@QuikTrip) August 2, 2022
Yes, the Nets would receive a QuikTrip convenience store from Phoenix and Bridges would be reunited with his favorite convenience store on the East Coast, Wawa.
The trade was suggested by QuikTrip on social media on Tuesday and it got people's attention, including Bridges, who responded to QT's tweet.
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Yall so hell 😭😭😭 and WEAK !! https://t.co/O6xFc4aS1q
— Mikal Bridges (@mikal_bridges) August 2, 2022
The backstory between Mikal Bridges and the convenience store
The trade proposal wasn't the only tweet from QT on Tuesday.
The convenience store chain tweeted out why it was included Bridges in its theoretical trade for Kevin Durant.
It all stems from Bridges tweeting out that he missed Wawa, a chain not located in Arizona, last year.
The Suns player also replied to a QT tweet, tagging Wawa.
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we have a bone to pick with Mikal and he knows it pic.twitter.com/TQAEXCxTPf
— QuikTrip (@QuikTrip) August 2, 2022
More tweets from QuikTrip
The QT Twitter account wasn't done yet.
It posted several other tweets about the trade on Tuesday, interacting with fans in many of them.
There might be holes in this theoretical trade, but I 100% believe we could run a better franchise than J*mes D*lan
— QuikTrip (@QuikTrip) August 2, 2022
queue the block in 3...2...1...
— QuikTrip (@QuikTrip) August 2, 2022
Counter then
— QuikTrip (@QuikTrip) August 2, 2022
Can we be drafted 1st and 2nd overall?
— QuikTrip (@QuikTrip) August 2, 2022
No, we had chili cheese dog taquitos once. That was our worst idea.
— QuikTrip (@QuikTrip) August 3, 2022
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