{"id":493565,"date":"2025-06-22T14:21:20","date_gmt":"2025-06-22T18:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=493565"},"modified":"2025-06-22T14:21:20","modified_gmt":"2025-06-22T18:21:20","slug":"phoenix-trades-durant-to-houston-in-a-blockbuster-deal","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/phoenix-trades-durant-to-houston-in-a-blockbuster-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Phoenix trades Durant to Houston in a blockbuster deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Phoenix Suns have agreed to trade Kevin Durant to the Houston Rockets in an exchange of Jalen Green, Dillon Brooks, the 10<sup>th<\/sup> overall selection in the 2025 draft, and 5 2<sup>nd<\/sup>-round selections.<\/p>\n<p>The trade will become official when the new NBA year starts on the 6<sup>th<\/sup> next month.<\/p>\n<p>Kevin was interviewed on stage when the news about his trade became public, and he was asked to give his 1<sup>st<\/sup> reaction about that: \u201cWe are going to see,\u201d shared Kevin.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A new era for Kevin Durant \ud83d\ude80<\/p>\n<p>The Rockets will be KD&#39;s fifth team \ud83c\udf7f (via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShamsCharania?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@ShamsCharania<\/a>) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zxiHcYsMMF\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/zxiHcYsMMF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SportsCenter\/status\/1936828819677049317?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 22, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In addition to receiving 2 starters from the 2nd seed in the West Conference and this year\u2019s 1st-round selection, the 5 2nd-round selections headed to Phoenix are from this year, next year, and 2030.<\/p>\n<p>Durant will hope to be in a contender as he wants to win another ring, as he will be the face of the Rockets alongside 2025 All-Star Alperen Sengun, rising 2-way force\u00a0 Amen Thompson, and veteran guard Fred VanVleet.<\/p>\n<p>The Rockets won 52 matches in the regular campaign under manager \u00a0Ime Udoka this season.<\/p>\n<p>Kevin wanted to continue his career in the NBA, either in Houston, Miami, or San Antonio. That means that Durant will be happy that he will play in one of his preferred teams.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Rockets starters:<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Durant<br \/>Fred VanVleet<br \/>Amen Thompson<br \/>Jabari Smith Jr<br \/>Alperen Sengun<\/p>\n<p>Top __ starting 5 in the NBA. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KctlEm7Hzc\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/KctlEm7Hzc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; StatMuse (@statmuse) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/statmuse\/status\/1936828198907461987?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 22, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Phoenix Suns have agreed to trade Kevin Durant to the Houston Rockets in an exchange of Jalen Green, Dillon Brooks, the 10th [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":493345,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17044,16798,17005],"news_category":[16706,16715],"gn_keywords":[18346,17880,17557],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"The Suns traded Kevin to the Rockets ahead of the finals.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/493565"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493565"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/493565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":493566,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/493565\/revisions\/493566"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/493345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493565"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=493565"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=493565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}