A Normal NBA Trade!
Holy smokes! A huge NBA trade happened and it hasn't left me dazed and confused. The Houston Rockets acquired Kevin Durant in exchange for Jalen Green, Dillon Brooks, the No. 10 overall pick in Wednesday's draft and five second-rounders.
The Phoenix Suns finally admitted everything they did after reaching the NBA finals back in 2021 was flat out stupid. The got rid of their young defensive minded center in Deandre Ayton. They waived goodbye to veteran point guard Chris Paul. And they completely gutted their best attribute which was young depth when they traded Mikal Bridges, Cam Johnson, multiple first-round picks (2023, 2025, 2027 and 2029) for Kevin Durant. OK. Pairing Devin Booker and Durant could have been cool. There is only 1 basketball, but they probably could have shared... and then they brought in the most over-payed player in the NBA Bradley Beal in exchange for Chris Paul, Landry Shamet, and Bilal Coulibaly (the No. 7 pick), and future second-round picks. The worst part of all of this is that everyone outside of Phoenix knew those three guys could not possibly get enough touches. But everyone had to have a big three. What did that get the Suns... nothing.
But today the NBA world actually got a little more normal. Instead of a huge overpay like four first round picks for Rudy freaking Gobert, or a huge underpay of Luka Doncic for... almost nothing, we actually had a trade that made sense for both teams.
Don't get me wrong, the Houston Rockets absolutely won this trade. But when you screw up as bad as the Suns did, you aren't going to get a fair trade. The Suns had to get rid of Durant. he's old, makes a ton of money and did not fit the rebuild the Suns foolishly forced themselves into. They should have expected to get pennies on the dollar... and yet they did far better than that. They basically looked at the team best positioned to trade for Durant and got the third best player on their team, Green, who also happens to be only 23 years old. They also got the number 10 pick iin this years draft which is not shabby. Dillon Brooks is fine but I doubt he will stay on the Suns. The five number two draft picks seems absurd but they actually have value now as those contracts are a cheap way to fill out the end of your bench.
Amen Thompson and Durant on the same team is going to be a sight to see!
And the Rockets got exactly what they needed. They are a deep team who was missing a killer. Even at the age of 36, The Slim Reaper is just that. He is someone they can give the ball to at the end of the game and he will make a shot. The rockets just made themselves significantly better without giving up all their depth. That seems like a very hard thing to do these days. I honestly can't wait to see OKC and Houston square off next year. Oh and as an added piece of trivia, the old OKC trio of Harden, Westbrook and Durant have all now been on the Rockets. I will always wonder what would have been if the Thunder traded Westbrook instead of Harden...
So what do you think of this trade?
The Suns could have recovered some picks, even if they were second-round picks, for the next few years, but for me they still lost out in the trade. When they acquired Durant, they gave up a lot and will continue to do so for a player who, in terms of his game in Arizona, contributed practically nothing to achieving the NBA title or even going far in the postseason.
They are in trouble for a few years for sure. But they had to start sometime.
That's true, at some point they had to start rebuilding the team and, well, try to choose good draft picks.
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It's still quite early to say how things will play out but trading Durant for that number of players makes more sense. It's time to make space for the new generation who are eager to make a name for themselves. It's like how I knew OKC were going to win the championship because Shay was eager to make a stand for himself in the NBA. This is how championships are won.
I see OKC won last night. I didn't watch the game, but I saw the headline this morning.
Yeah it was kind of a letdown that one of the Pacers best players got hurt in the 1st quarter but it was still an entertaining series.
I saw he got hurt, but I didn't realize it was the first quarter.
I am in a favor of this move and congrats the okc for winning the game.
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For me, the trade was good for the Phoenix Suns, but let's just say not so good for the Houston Rockets. Certainly, if the Suns manage to get rid of Beal, it would be perfect. They could start a rebuild to become competitive again in three or four years. It's a shame about Haliburton in Game 7, but anyway, congratulations to OKC for their first NBA championship.
Normally I don't like it when a team deals for an aging star, burt the Rockets are unique. They have a bunch of #2 players and they need a stand out #1.
He may be a friend, but I think Durant can be that star for the Rockets. It raises many doubts in my mind, but only time will tell if it was the best option. If they wanted a real star, they could have gone for Giannis Antetokounmpo or maybe Trae Young, but, well, that was their choice.
It was a good decision and some decisions have to be changed during the match to win
There were trade talks but I was surprised by destination and Houston Rockets. Also how do you get surprised after Luka trade?
Last year I followed Suns closely. Big three was talked too much. It did not work. And important part is that Beal has no trade clause as I remember so trading Durant if he was not satisfied or team did not see them working out was easy decision, we dont expect them to trade Devin Booker (not yet at least).
All in al both teams got what they wanted, Alperen is very good there and couple more moves and they are quite good.
Suns got young star who can try more this season and maybe they trade more.
There were talks about San Antonio as Durant destination and that was interesting. If you look at this trade San Antonio had pieces to make trade. And Wemby and Durant would be good to watch.
Basketball summer mode on. Let them combine teams and see how it plays out.