Kevin Durant arrives in Rockets in spectacular change, Fuentes
Kevin Durant leaves Suns and arrives in Rockies in exchange for Jaleen Green, Dillon Brooks and other prospects, according to Fuentes
The Phoenix Suns have agreed to a spectacular transfer: Kevin Durant, 15 times there of the NBA, joins the Houston Rockets.
The movement is carried out, in exchange for Jalen Green, Dillon Brooks, the tenth selection of the draft and five selections of second round, according to Fuentes to AM850 Sunday.
According to the sources, the transfer will be formalized when the new year of the League begins on July 6. The agreement places Durant in the Rockets, second head of the series, who won 52 games with IME UDOKA as coach in the 2024/25 season, and elevates the team’s position to aspire to the west conference championship, with Durant forming a team with the All-Star 2025 Alperen Sengun, the promising bidirectional player Amen Thompson and the veteran base Fred Vanvlet.
Durant and Umoka maintain a solid relationship that dates back to their periods shared with the Brooklyn Nets and uses basketball. Last week, Uudoka agreed a new long -term contract extension with rockets, which makes it one of the best paid coaches in the league.
Durant, who will turn 37 in September, averaged 26.6 points, 6.0 rebounds and 4.2 assists in 62 games this season. The future member of the Hall of Fame has averaged at least 25 points, 50% in field shots and 40% in triples in three consecutive seasons, the longest streak in the NBA history, according to AM850 Research. As a shooter, Durant remains prolific: he achieved the best effectiveness of the NBA in suspended shots (49.7%) and medium distance shots (53.1%). He also had the best percentage of shooting from the drible (50.9%), according to Geniusiq.
Durant is a key acquisition for rockets, especially by providing them with an excellent suspension and creator of shots that integrate perfectly into the alignment.
In the last season, the Rockets occupied the 27th position in percentage of effective field shots in shots from the drible and 24 in percentage of effective field shots in all shots, according to Geniusiq. The Rockets also occupied the seventh place in isolates per game this season, but only 27 at points for direct isolation. By contract, Durant is a reliable shooter and remains one of the best isolation players in the league: he led the NBA at points for direct isolation among the players who made 200 isolates this season, according to AM850 Research.
The Suns held serious conversations to transfer Durant this week, mainly focused on Miami Heat, Houston Rockets and Minnesota Timberwolves, according to Fuentes. Other Commodines also emerged, such as Toronto Raptors, Cleveland Cavaliers, the Clippers and Denver Nuggets, according to Fuentes. However, with a Durant contract of 54.7 million dollars about to expire and eligible for a new extension of two years after the transfer, the league market for him clearly demonstrated his ability to decide if he wanted to play for a long -term franchise.
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Kevin Durant has a new team: Houston Rockets
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The sums conversations focused on the Rockets and the Heat in recent days, but both teams were reluctant to get rid of young pillars such as Jabari Smith Jr., Reed Sheppard (Houston) and Kel’el Ware (Miami) in an agreement by Durant, according to Fuentes. The Heat made multiple offers by Durant, but finally rejected the opportunity to include Jaime Jaquez Jr., Nikola Jovic, Haywood Highsmith, the number 20 selection of the Draft and other Draft assets in an agreement, according to Fuentes. Green averaged 21 points, 4.6 rebounds and 3.4 assists this season, with a 35.4% success in triples, the best mark of his career. The 23 -year -old, second selection of the NBA Draft of 2021, played the 82 games of each of the last two seasons. He scored 234 triple this season, as many in a campaign for a rock player from James Harden in 2019-20. Now he teams with the star All-Nba Devin Booker to form a powerful duo at 20 years.
Brooks achieved a 39.7% success in triples, the best mark of his career, and occupied third place in total defensive clashes against All-Stars of 2025 this season, according to AM850 Research. Whitmore, who will turn 21 in July, averaged 0.46 points per touch, the fourth best average among players who have reached 1,000 touches this season. For a team like the Suns that has declared that he wants to promote hardness and determination for the future, with the owner Mat Ishbia promoting a new culture, Brooks has embodied these attributes throughout his career.
Durant arrived at the Suns in a transfer at the deadline of February 2023, and his 26.8 points per party as a member of the franchise are the highest in the history of the Suns. Phoenix now has three first round and eight selections of second round eligible to be transferred, recovering most of the assets they exchanged when they acquired four first -round selections per Durant.
The Suns had a 36-46 record this season and ended in the eleventh place of the West Conference with the highest payroll in the NBA history, which led to organizational changes with the hiring of the Executive Brian Gregory as general manager and the assistant of the Cavaliers, Jordan Ott, as the new main coach.
