The Golden State Warriors know what a Kevin Durant deal looks like.
They’re trying to get involved in KD’s latest trade from the Phoenix Suns to the Houston Rockets?
How exactly?
The Athletic’s Fred Katz reported Wednesday night that the Houston Rockets’ Kevin Durant deal with the Phoenix Suns could expand into a seven-team extravaganza. The five other teams reported to be involved are the Atlanta Hawks, Brooklyn Nets, Golden State Warriors, Los Angeles Lakers and Minnesota Timberwolves
Since the Durant trade hasn’t been made official yet, little side dealings and combinations of other trades can happen to move money in the most efficient way.
“In a would-be seven-team trade, there is an unprecedented amount of detail,” Katz writes. “Unfortunately, while a seven-team trade would make for a thrilling topic at a cocktail party, there haven’t been many unexpected developments in these negotiations. At least in the iterations of the deal discussed so far, most of the recognizable names are from trades that have already been agreed to and reported but not yet finalized.”
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The deals that Katz outlines in his next section clarify that there are plenty of people we know, just not any potential news ones.
“The Hawks would be sending Clint Capela to the Rockets in what would become a sign-and-trade, league sources say,” Katz writes. “Durant would go to Houston. The previously reported return for him, including Dillon Brooks and Jalen Green, would go to Phoenix. Only five players who were in the NBA last season are being discussed in the current iteration of the trade, as of now: Durant, Brooks, Green, Clint Capela and Daeqwon Plowden, league sources say. The rest of the players being discussed are all from already-agreed-upon draft-night trades that are yet to be finalized and can’t be until July 6.”
The Warriors look like they’d be only involved on a very tertiary level to help this deal go through.
There has never been a trade with this many teams in NBA history. Katz writes that the previous largest was a six-team move last summer that ended with Klay Thompson in Dallas. There was a five-team swap in 2021 when Russell Westbrook went from the Lakers to the Wizards.
Lucky number seven is next.
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