The Houston Rockets are buying and selling Jalen Inexperienced, Dillon Brooks, the No. 10 choose within the upcoming NBA draft, and 5 second-round picks to the Phoenix Suns for future Corridor of Famer Kevin Durant. Different groups just like the Spurs and the Timberwolves have been reported to have had curiosity within the 36-year-old, two-time Finals MVP, however the Texas franchise provided younger expertise, a defensive stalwart like Brooks, and a handful of draft picks.
Take a look at the response to KD’s commerce:
Breaking: The Phoenix Suns are buying and selling two-time NBA Finals MVP Kevin Durant to the Houston Rockets for Jalen Inexperienced, Dillon Brooks, the No. 10 choose within the 2025 draft and 5 second-round picks, sources inform @ShamsCharania.
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— ESPN (@espn) June 22, 2025
BREAKING: The Suns are buying and selling two-time NBA Finals MVP Kevin Durant to the Rockets in change for Jalen Inexperienced, Dillon Brooks, the No. 10 choose within the 2025 draft and 5 second-round picks🚨
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— Basketball Ceaselessly (@bballforever_) June 22, 2025
Turning Mikal Bridges, Cam Johnson, 4 first-round picks and a swap into Jalen Inexperienced, Dillon Brooks and a late lotto choose in a middling draft within the span of simply 28 months is franchise detonation ranges of asset mismanagement.
— Derek Bodner (@derekbodner.bsky.social) Jun 22, 2025 at 18:50
The Suns don’t plan to commerce Jalen Inexperienced, he’s anticipated to play alongside Devin Booker within the backcourt.
— John Gambadoro (@Gambo987) June 22, 2025
The Suns accepting this deal now, regardless of reportedly not wanting Inexperienced, may point out they discovered a staff to reroute him to.
Together with the marketplace for Durant, it additionally displays how a lot they valued getting the tenth choose.
— Bobby Krivitsky (@bobbykrivitsky.bsky.social) Jun 22, 2025 at 18:56
The Rockets may exceed the $195.9 million first apron for now.
This commerce leaves them $16.8 million above the luxurious tax line with 12 gamers.
They’ll doubtless get beneath it by extra trades, waiving non-guaranteed gamers, and restructuring Fred VanVleet’s contract.
— Yossi Gozlan (@yossigozlan.bsky.social) Jun 22, 2025 at 18:54
Rockets are sending out extra salaries than they’re taking again.
Suns can’t take again extra salaries than they’re sending out since they’re an apron staff, that means a 3rd staff should be concerned.
Nevertheless, this commerce works as a result of Dillons Brooks’ cap hit will lower by $1 million.
— Yossi Gozlan (@yossigozlan.bsky.social) Jun 22, 2025 at 18:49
The Warmth had been unwilling to give up Kel’el Ware in commerce talks for Kevin Durant, league sources confirmed to @ClutchPoints.
Their finest supply stood with Andrew Wiggins and the twentieth choose on this 12 months’s draft headlining the deal.
Phoenix opted for the tenth choose package deal.
— Brett Siegel (@BrettSiegelNBA) June 22, 2025
KD commerce gonna pop up proper after Recreation 7 like a MCU post-credit scene
— David Dennis Jr. (@DavidDTSS) June 22, 2025
Rockets are going to be *scary* good contemplating KD fills precisely what they want, they didn’t half with a lot of the rotation, and Ime Udoka already has that shut relationship with him. Find it irresistible for Houston.
— Shane Younger (@YoungNBA) June 22, 2025
Rafael Stone and firm ANNIHILATED them on this deal. The Suns simply gave them their second finest participant for the Rockets’ worst contract and the tenth, together with Dillon and a few seconds, and Houston STILL has them leveraged for the long run AND didn’t give them any good younger guys
— Hardwood Paroxysm (@HPbasketball) June 22, 2025
