According to
Marc Stein and Jake Fischer of The Stein Line
, the Houston Rockets and San Antonio Spurs see little need to make asset-rich trade offers to the Phoenix Suns for
Kevin Durant
.
The Rockets, Spurs and Miami Heat are the three teams Durant wants to get traded to.
“Teams such as Houston and San Antonio simply see little need to make asset-rich offers for Durant when A) they know that the Suns face self-imposed pressure to try to assemble a deal that delivers even half as much as they gave up to acquire the future Hall of Famer in February 2023 and B) both teams have long-held reservations about bidding aggressively for a player who will be 37 in September … and when their respective cores are so much younger,” Stein and Fischer wrote.
The Minnesota Timberwolves are interested in trading for Durant.
However, Durant doesn’t want to play for them.
“Minnesota’s level of interest, meanwhile, also appears to be in flux,” Stein and Fischer wrote. “The Timberwolves are said to be reluctant to go ahead with a trade unless they know Durant would embrace it and ESPN’s Marc J. Spears reported Wednesday that Wolves star
Anthony Edwards
— despite his well-chronicled fondness for Durant dating to his youth — has not been actively lobbying his Olympic teammate to add Minnesota to his Houston/San Antonio/Miami list of desired destinations.”
Durant has one year left on his contract. The team that trades for the 15-time All-Star will have his Bird rights.
A two-time Finals MVP, Durant appeared in 62 games for the Suns this season. He averaged 26.6 points, 6.0 rebounds and 4.2 assists while shooting 52.7% from the field, 43.0% from 3 and 83.9% from the foul line.
A future Hall of Famer, Durant has played for the Oklahoma City Thunder, Golden State Warriors, Brooklyn Nets and Suns. He hasn’t gotten past the second round of the playoffs since leaving the Warriors in the summer of 2019.
Along with the Heat, Rockets, Spurs and Timberwolves, Durant has been linked to the Los Angeles Clippers and Toronto Raptors in trade rumors.
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