{"id":472454,"date":"2025-06-22T15:57:59","date_gmt":"2025-06-22T19:57:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/nba-bombshell-the-suns-trade-kevin-durant-to-the-rockets\/"},"modified":"2025-06-22T15:57:59","modified_gmt":"2025-06-22T19:57:59","slug":"nba-bombshell-the-suns-trade-kevin-durant-to-the-rockets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/sports\/nba-bombshell-the-suns-trade-kevin-durant-to-the-rockets\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA bombshell: The Suns trade Kevin Durant to the Rockets"},"content":{"rendered":"Kevin Durant&#8217;s time with the Phoenix Suns has come to an end. After two and a half seasons with the Arizona team, Kevin Durant has been traded to the Houston Rockets.\n\nThe Houston team was one along with <strong>Miami Heat <\/strong>and <strong>San Antonio Spurs,<\/strong> the favorite destinations of the two-time NBA champion in case of being traded. It seemed that <strong>San Antonio<\/strong> could have the lead in achieving Durant&#8217;s transfer, <strong>but in the end it was the Rockets who took KD.<\/strong>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>You may be interested in<\/strong>:<a href=\"http:\/\/Jenny Boucek, a un paso de hacer historia con los Pacers en las Finales de la NBA\">http:\/\/Jenny Boucek, a un paso de hacer historia con los Pacers en las Finales de la NBA<\/a><\/p>\n\n\nThe Rockets have sent the Suns a package consisting of <strong>Jalen Green, Dillon Brooks, the number 10 pick<\/strong> of this year&#8217;s draft and <strong>five second-round picks.<\/strong>\n\n<strong>Houston Rockets<\/strong> finished second in the regular season, but their performance in the playoffs (eliminated in the first round) <strong>made it clear that the Texan team needed a player who could take on the role of first sword in attack<\/strong>. The following season will be the sixteenth for <strong>Durant<\/strong>, but he has shown that, despite his 36 years, he is still current to be the star of a &#8216;contender&#8217; team.\n\nKD had better scoring statistics than any player on his new team.&nbsp;<strong>The two-time NBA Finals MVP averaged 26.6 points, 4.2 assists, and 5.7 rebounds&nbsp;<\/strong>during his past season.\n\n<strong>Durant&nbsp;<\/strong> (54 million) will be the highest paid player for the <strong>Rockets<\/strong>, surpassing the almost 34 million of <strong>Sengun&nbsp;<\/strong> or the possible 44 million that <strong>VanVleet<\/strong> can earn.\n\nWith this transfer, the <strong>Suns<\/strong> close the stage of the duo formed by <strong>Booker<\/strong> and <strong>Durant<\/strong> and receive a talented young player like <strong>Jalen Green<\/strong>, as well as a good selection in one of the most talented drafts of recent years.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Durant&#8217;s time with the Phoenix Suns has come to an end. After two and a half seasons with the Arizona team, Kevin Durant has been traded to the Houston Rockets. The Houston team was one along with Miami Heat and San Antonio Spurs, the favorite destinations of the two-time NBA champion in case of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":472455,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[19054],"class_list":["post-472454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-kevin-durant"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-1YUe","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/06\/Captura-de-pantalla-2025-06-22-155128.jpg","dum_api":{"author_name":"Redacci\u00f3n De \u00daltimo Minuto","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/cropped-logo-de-ultimo-minuto-96x96.png","categories_name":["Sports"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/06\/Captura-de-pantalla-2025-06-22-155128.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=472454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/472455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}