Kevin Durant’s trade talks are going to shake up the NBA over the next few weeks, or months. The league’s upcoming collective bargaining agreement talks, on the other hand, could stall the league — or stop it altogether.

The two are related.

The NBA just finished its most profitable season ever, and both the league and its players know even bigger windfalls are on the horizon once the two sides hammer out a new labor deal in the wake of a new set of media rights contracts. With a mammoth amount of money at stake, neither side wants a work stoppage.

But the recent actions of Durant — along with those of Ben Simmons, James Harden and Kyrie Irving, all Durant teammates in Brooklyn at some points this past season — have caught the eye of NBA owners, and not in a good way.