Kevin Durant’s list of preferred trade destinations contains three teams. Yet it almost had four. The Stein Line has learned that the Knicks also would have featured on that list but were ultimately omitted when New York made it clear that it has decided against pursuing a trade for the NBA’s No. 8 all-time leading scorer.
Source: marcstein.substack.com
Source: marcstein.substack.com
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Duane Rankin @DuaneRankin
Can Phoenix Suns land best deal and trade Kevin Durant to preferred destination? (w/video) #Suns azcentral.com/story/sports/n… via @azcentral – 2:04 PM
Can Phoenix Suns land best deal and trade Kevin Durant to preferred destination? (w/video) #Suns azcentral.com/story/sports/n… via @azcentral – 2:04 PM
Eurohoops @Eurohoopsnet
🚨👀Kevin Durant has three preferred trade destinations: the Miami Heat, San Antonio Spurs, and Houston Rockets. He is willing to sign a long-term deal with any of these teams. pic.x.com/pJyBgUdTBO – 7:18 AM
🚨👀Kevin Durant has three preferred trade destinations: the Miami Heat, San Antonio Spurs, and Houston Rockets. He is willing to sign a long-term deal with any of these teams. pic.x.com/pJyBgUdTBO – 7:18 AM
Kurt Helin @basketballtalk
Report: Kevin Durant’s wish list is Spurs, Heat, Rockets
nbcsports.com/nba/news/repor… – 6:10 AM
Report: Kevin Durant’s wish list is Spurs, Heat, Rockets
nbcsports.com/nba/news/repor… – 6:10 AM
Paul Garcia @PaulGarciaNBA
Analyzed all the reporting Saturday on KD wanting to land with the Spurs, Rockets, or Heat.
Looked at latest reports Wolves might not be close anymore to getting deal done and then put some hypothetical packages together for SA/HOU/MIA.
open.substack.com/pub/thespotups… – 2:19 AM
Analyzed all the reporting Saturday on KD wanting to land with the Spurs, Rockets, or Heat.
Looked at latest reports Wolves might not be close anymore to getting deal done and then put some hypothetical packages together for SA/HOU/MIA.
open.substack.com/pub/thespotups… – 2:19 AM
Paul Garcia @PaulGarciaNBA
Spurs are one of three teams on Kevin Durant’s preferred destination list open.substack.com/pub/thespotups… pic.x.com/GO09H3J1xw – 2:16 AM
Spurs are one of three teams on Kevin Durant’s preferred destination list open.substack.com/pub/thespotups… pic.x.com/GO09H3J1xw – 2:16 AM
Sam Vecenie @Sam_Vecenie
KD leak about his preferred teams feels pretty pointed. Which, good for him and his reps, go for it. But I feel like Phoenix is just gonna move him where they want to move him. – 11:16 PM
KD leak about his preferred teams feels pretty pointed. Which, good for him and his reps, go for it. But I feel like Phoenix is just gonna move him where they want to move him. – 11:16 PM
Shams Charania @ShamsCharania
Sources: Kevin Durant prefers to land with the Heat, Rockets, Spurs, as three teams he would commit with long term – ESPN: espn.com/nba/story/_/id… – 10:28 PM
Sources: Kevin Durant prefers to land with the Heat, Rockets, Spurs, as three teams he would commit with long term – ESPN: espn.com/nba/story/_/id… – 10:28 PM
Sam Quinn @SamQuinnCBS
Kevin Durant has been on the trade market effectively since February. The timing of this “preferred destinations” reporting feels conspicuous. It suggests to me that a non-preferred team is getting close and he’s working against them. – 10:19 PM
Kevin Durant has been on the trade market effectively since February. The timing of this “preferred destinations” reporting feels conspicuous. It suggests to me that a non-preferred team is getting close and he’s working against them. – 10:19 PM
Shams Charania @ShamsCharania
The Miami Heat, San Antonio Spurs and Houston Rockets are 15-time All-Star Kevin Durant’s preferred trade destinations out of Phoenix, sources tell ESPN. Those across the NBA have been made aware in recent days that those are the three teams that Durant would commit to long-term. pic.x.com/Hqn5hDaWxC – 9:51 PM
The Miami Heat, San Antonio Spurs and Houston Rockets are 15-time All-Star Kevin Durant’s preferred trade destinations out of Phoenix, sources tell ESPN. Those across the NBA have been made aware in recent days that those are the three teams that Durant would commit to long-term. pic.x.com/Hqn5hDaWxC – 9:51 PM
Kellan Olson @KellanOlson
With the Kevin Durant trade negotiations fully underway and a list of suitors known, I took a stab at what the Suns could be holding firm on with each team as the bidding continues and we wait for a deal to get done: arizonasports.com/nba/phoenix-su… – 5:48 PM
With the Kevin Durant trade negotiations fully underway and a list of suitors known, I took a stab at what the Suns could be holding firm on with each team as the bidding continues and we wait for a deal to get done: arizonasports.com/nba/phoenix-su… – 5:48 PM
Sirius XM NBA @SiriusXMNBA
“I thought about being done then.”
Six years later, Bob Myers reflects on the heartbreak of the 2019 NBA Finals and the injuries to KD and Klay with @TheFrankIsola & @Scalabrine pic.x.com/scRKs9I1bo – 4:18 PM
“I thought about being done then.”
Six years later, Bob Myers reflects on the heartbreak of the 2019 NBA Finals and the injuries to KD and Klay with @TheFrankIsola & @Scalabrine pic.x.com/scRKs9I1bo – 4:18 PM
Ian Begley @IanBegley
One thing worth noting on potential Kevin Durant trades: there are important Suns voices who want to add a starting-caliber C this offseason. There are several pathways to do this but KD trade obviously gives PHX the clearest path to one. As many others have said, MIN is among – 4:09 PM
One thing worth noting on potential Kevin Durant trades: there are important Suns voices who want to add a starting-caliber C this offseason. There are several pathways to do this but KD trade obviously gives PHX the clearest path to one. As many others have said, MIN is among – 4:09 PM
More on this storyline
The wish list thus only goes three deep, featuring Texas neighbors San Antonio and Houston and the Miami Heat. Sources say the Suns, meanwhile, are not promising to send Kevin Durant to any of those destinations. They are open to a mutually beneficial trade to the Spurs, Rockets or Heat if they end up liking the return, but it appears that Phoenix is prepared to make the best deal it can after surrendering a staggering haul to acquire Durant from Brooklyn in the first place in February 2023. -via marcstein.substack.com / June 15, 2025
League sources say Durant prefers to play for the San Antonio Spurs or the Houston Rockets, for example, but there are complicating factors with both of those negotiations that (for now, at least) make a deal look unlikely. From there, the list of reported suitors — with Minnesota and Miami among them — is somewhat similar to the one from four months ago. There is always a chance, of course, that a wild-card team surprises us all with a late push as well. -via New York Times / June 15, 2025
Krawczynski: That’s right, Sam. When we dove into the Wolves’ interest before the deadline that ultimately did not result in a deal, it was easy to see how conversations between the two teams at that time could lay the foundation for renewed talks this summer. In speaking to sources connected to the team and around the league, the Wolves and Suns have been talking again about a Durant deal. But to this point, there is nothing close to happening. -via New York Times / June 15, 2025