General managers across the NBA believe in Kevin Durant and the Nets.

A whopping 72 percent of league GMs picked the star-laden Nets to win the franchise’s first NBA championship this season, in NBA.com’s yearly GM survey. Durant was also tapped as the favorite to earn MVP honors.

The Nets lost in the second round of the playoffs last spring to the eventual-champion Bucks, concluding an injury-riddled season for Durant and his Big-3 brethren, James Harden and Kyrie Irving. The Nets were followed in the polling of 30 GMs by the Lakers (17 percent) and the Bucks (10 percent) to win the title.

“Doesn’t bother me one way or the other,” head coach Steve Nash said Tuesday. “We’ve got to focus on our group and our work and prepare and try to be ready to get better week-by-week this season and put ourselves in a position to be as healthy and whole at the end of the road as possible.”

Durant received 37 percent of the MVP vote, followed by the Mavericks’ Luka Doncic (33 percent) and the Bucks’ Giannis Antetokounmpo (13 percent).

With Nash’s former assistant coach, Mike D’Antoni, now a coaching adviser with the Pelicans, former Hornets and Magic coach Steve Clifford has been serving as a consultant to Nash.

“I think he’ll be around quite a bit. He’s not here all the time, but the guys have already really enjoyed his presence and he’s got a great way about him as well,” Nash said of Clifford. “I’ve worked with him before when I played for the Lakers and he was someone that I really wanted to incorporate.

“I feel really lucky that it just happens to be that he’s not coaching right now and can help us and be a really positive addition.”

Asked about the retirement announcement Tuesday by former Spurs teammate Pau Gasol, Nets guard Patty Mills said the six-time NBA All-Star “had a hell of a career” and called Gasol “an international icon for the game of basketball.”

The Nets agreed to trade forward Sekou Doumbouya and a second-round pick to the Rockets, according to The Athletic, and to acquire guard Edmond Sumner and a second-round pick (via Miami) from the Pacers. The Nets reportedly plan to waive Sumner, who is out for the season with a torn Achilles. The Rockets are expected to waive Doumbouya.