Kevin Durant has a lever effect on the place where he is exchanged. He is a year old, at $ 54.7 million to play on his contract, any team that is negotiated to sign it to an extension. During can always say: “I will not sign with you.”
Durant wants to be exchanged at San Antonio Spurs or Houston Rockets, reports Sam Amick of Athletics. Shams Charania d’Espn Added the Miami Heat to these two teams. Amick adds that during the desire, the Suns are the most concerned with the best return they can get and if a team is ready to risk walking after a year – as Toronto did to land Kawhi Leonard for the 2018-19 season (who worked well for them) – the Suns will listen. During a two -year extension for more than $ 100 million.
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Spurs and rockets would be considered as contenders for the title if they add during. The Spurs have Victor Wembanyama in painting and of’aron Fox at the point, recruit of the year Stephon Castle, and they almost certainly write Dylan Harper with choice n ° 2 in less than two weeks. The Rockets were seeded n ° 2 in the west last season, with a nucleus of young players such as Alperen Sangun and Amen Thompson. However, the playoffs revealed that this team did not have an elite and reference marker in which they could trust in the playoffs, and they also need more spacing and scoring in the half-habit. During all these boxes.
However, spurs and rockets like their current nuclei, and have spent the last years protecting their assets and building slowly. Suddenly exchanging part of this nucleus for a for 37 years would be a dramatic change, and the offers can reflect this. The Suns were not impressed by the offers of the Spurs built around Devin Vassell, Keldon Johnson and Harrison Barnes, reports Jake Fischer from the Stein line.
The perception of the league is that the rockets and the spurs are looking for a flight of an agreement, not the sort of translated the suns hope to land For the future temple of fame. It has also been reported that the Spurs do not push hard to conclude an agreement. San Antonio would be willing to exchange choice n ° 14 in the draft of the NBA this year, but not the choice n ° 2 or the parts of their young nucleus. The Rockets offer would take place around Jabari Smith Jr.
One thing to withdraw from these last rumors: everyone expects that during the project by or the project (unless it is a situation where a handshake agreement is in place to trade after July 6, when the new NBA exercise begins). A Durant business arrives, as soon as possible. The only question is where.