The Houston Rockets are enthusiastic about buying and selling for Phoenix Suns ahead Kevin Durant, in accordance with ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski.
This comes after Houston acquired among the Suns’ future draft property from the Brooklyn Nets in a commerce from Tuesday evening, per Wojnarowski. Following the draft choose commerce, the Rockets now personal a 2025 choose swap with the Suns, plus their 2027 unprotected first-round choose, and at the moment are looped in on a 2029 first-rounder that might change into Houston’s in sure outcomes.
Wojnarowski experiences that buying Durant now turns into “a lot simpler” for the Rockets to do, noting Phoenix desires to maintain Durant now however “that might change subsequent season.”
Wojnarowski notes that the Rockets have been intrigued about buying Durant however will now take these Suns picks and try to be aggressive with upgrades elsewhere on the commerce market. He as soon as once more confirmed the Suns wish to run it again with this present group subsequent season.
Durant, 35, has been the subject of commerce hypothesis for almost all of his profession and goes by way of one other offseason grabbing headlines on this method. He’s coming off his second 12 months with the Suns and first full season after being acquired from Brooklyn through the commerce deadline in February 2023.
Durant has two extra years left on his contract earlier than changing into an unrestricted free agent in 2026.