By Nico Martinez The Phoenix Suns rejected a Kevin Durant trade to keep Deandre Ayton and Mikal Bridges. In Brooklyn, the Nets are still looking for answers after a 1-4 start to the season. Based on talent alone, they should be one of the best teams in the East — instead, they are hovering near the bottom with too many flaws to count. For Kevin Durant, who is caught in the middle of it all, things could have turned out differently. After requesting a trade this summer, he named Phoenix and the Heat as his preferred destinations, in hopes that one of those teams would have the will and the ass…
