Over the summer, Kevin Durant requested a trade from the Brooklyn Nets.

At the time, he gave owner Joe Tsai an ultimatum: trade him or fire then-head coach Steve Nash and general manager Sean Marks.

At the end of all the drama, Durant stayed put, and Nash lasted just seven games this season before he and the Nets "parted ways."

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Aside from the on-court struggles, the Nets have found themselves in hot water recently with Kyrie Irving's latest controversy that began when he tweeted a link to a film filled with antisemitic disinformation. Irving did not apologize until after the team had suspended him for at least five games.

With all the headlines surrounding Brooklyn, Kevin Durant could very well soon be on the trade block again.

"The next domino … is Durant," ESPN's Zach Lowe said on his podcast. "The vultures are gonna circle on Durant. Those vultures expect the Nets to put on a strong face for a while, to not rush it, to posture probably, honestly, [say] that, ‘No, he has four years left on his contract. We control his situation, we’re trying to win, we don’t want to do this …’

"I don’t think this is gonna be fast. I don’t know that it will really ever happen, but I know that the whole league is ready now to reengage on Durant."

Durant requested the trade over the summer because he had concerns with the team's "uncertainties"

"As the season went on you seen what happened with our season," Durant told reporters in September. "Guys in and out of the lineup, injuries, just a lot of uncertainties that built some doubt about the next four years of my career. I’m getting older, and I want to be in a place that’s stable and trying to build a championship culture. I had some doubts about that, and I voiced them to [Tsai] and we moved forward from there …

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"I’ve had plenty of talks with Steve and Sean throughout the season and what we needed to change as an organization. They know me, they know how much I care about our teammates and wanting to win. We all jumped on the same page. We are all professionals. We know how to adapt and move forward."

Durant is in the first year of a four-year, $198 million extension he inked in August 2021.

The Nets improved to 3-6 on the year with Friday's 128-86 win over the Washington Wizards. Durant was a rebound away from a triple-double and showed off a deadly crossover move that went viral.

RealClearPolitics launched its “Polling Accountability Initiative” Friday in an effort to restore voters’ trust in the polling industry.

The news website and polling aggregator, whose polling averages are frequently used by media outlets, launched the project just days before the 2022 midterms in an effort to “increase accountability and restore public trust in political and election polling.” Pollsters are divided into single-state and multi-state pollsters, and ranked by the average error between their polls and the final election results.

“Since pioneering the RCP Poll Average in 2002, the public opinion survey industry has undergone momentous changes and faced a series of challenges in a profoundly altered political landscape,” RealClearPolitics said in a press release announcing the initiative. “Twenty years ago, Facebook and Twitter did not exist. The iPhone did not exist. The percentage of households with landlines has dropped from 90% in 2004 to just 40% today. Over the same period, the number of Americans owning cell phones has skyrocketed to 97%.”

“There are many quality pollsters and media outlets that are doing excellent work in a constantly changing technological and political environment,” RCP continued. “However, there are also pollsters and news organizations that are doing less-than-stellar work and, unfortunately, many of the polls from these organizations receive a disproportionate amount of attention.”

“RCP’s goal here is simple,” the outlet concluded. “Accuracy is the foundational bedrock of public trust. To that end we will be evaluating pollsters almost exclusively on one metric – accuracy in reflecting the actual results… Our hope is that by bringing attention to the most accurate polling firms and organizations, as well as shining a light on firms releasing less accurate surveys, we will help bring accountability to political polling that has been lacking in recent election cycles.”

RCP released its initial rankings Friday; the rankings were broken down by single and multi-state or national pollsters, as well by the 2016 election and 2018 midterms, and the 2020 election. The best national pollster in 2016/2018 was Selzer & Co., with an average error of just 2 points; the best single-state pollster was New Hampshire’s St. Anselm College, with an average error of just 0.8 points. The worst national pollster was Quinnipiac University, with an average error of 5.7 points; the worst single-state pollster was Franklin & Marshall College, with a massive average error of 10 points.

In 2020, the best national pollster was the Trafalgar Group, with a 2.5-point average error; the worst was Monmouth University, with a 7.6-point error. The best state pollster was Stockton University, with a 0.5-point error; the worst was Detroit News/Glengariff, with a 5.8-point error.

One independent pollster opined on the state of his industry earlier this week. “Media, they used to be a safeguard against the misuse of polling as a weapon of information war, and unfortunately now I think it’s very clear that big media has become one of those abusers, and they’re the repeat offenders of it,” Big Data Poll director Richard Baris said in an interview with the Epoch Times. “And the most [supposedly] credible news outlets out there are the very ones that are doing this time and time again.”

“Many [pollsters] no longer even understand the people that they’re trying to learn about, trying to gauge,” he continued. “And polling is essentially attempting to predict human behavior… How could you do that if you don’t know that much about the subject, and maybe even dislike them? And that’s the truth, most people in my field dislike them.”

“I think we have really really serious problems, ethically and methodologically,” Baris added, later praising RCP’s initiative to increase accountability.