BREAKING: Kevin Durant Trade Fallout: Rockets Rise, Suns Rebuild, League Reacts

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🗓️ 22 June 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Kevin Durant is heading to Houston in a shocking trade that has the whole league buzzing. Matt Moore and Haize break down why the Suns may have gotten fleeced, and if the Rockets are now true contenders in the West.

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0:00.0	It happened. Kevin Durant traded to the Houston Rockets. We'll have instant reactions from Matt and Hayes on who won the deal and whether or not this makes the Houston Rockets a finals contender next season. It's all coming up today on Locked-on NBA, your daily NBA podcast, part of the Locked-on Podcast Network, your team every day.
0:31.3	Welcome to Locked-on NBA. Thanks for making us your first listen of the day. We are free available wherever you get your podcast
0:37.6	part of the Lockdown Podcast Network, your team every day. I'm Doug Branson, host of Lockdown
0:42.6	Hornets and your Shot Clock Sherpa, guiding you through the NBA's biggest stories every day
0:47.6	with the help of Lockdown's local experts. And I have two of the best with me, as always,
0:52.4	from the Lockdown Nuggets podcast and senior NBA
0:54.7	writer for the Action Network. It's Matt Moore. And from the Lockdown Bulls podcast, we've got
0:59.8	Hayes. No time for pleasantries today. We've got breaking news out of the NBA. The Phoenix
1:04.2	Sons are trading forward. Kevin Durant to the Houston Rockets. The Sons will receive Jalen Green,
1:09.7	Dylan Brooks, the 10th pick in Wednesday's draft,
1:12.7	and five second round picks. Matt, your first reaction to this news.
1:17.8	Oh my God, the Sun's got killed. Look, I get it. He's 37. It's an expiring contract. He
1:23.9	had an Achilles injury. He's not exactly a guy that makes his teammates better.
1:27.9	His teams don't seem to perform at the level that we expect. It's Kevin Durant, who still
1:34.4	last season was a bucket from anywhere on the floor. And Houston wanted him. And Houston had all
1:40.3	your picks. And you didn't get any of them back you got jalen green the worst contract on
1:46.7	the rockets that they only gave because they felt like they had to because it gave them the opportunity
1:51.4	to do a deal like this you didn't get albert shangoon you didn't get jbarry smith junior didn't
1:56.0	get um and thompson you get cam whitmore you didn Reed Shepard. You got the 10th pick,
2:01.4	probably to take a center in a draft where center, there's a run on them. I'm expecting a lot of
2:05.4	them to be gone by the time you get to the 10th pick. And five second rounders, golf clap for you.
2:11.1	Oh my God, Hayes. The sun's got annihilated. The Rockets got exactly what they want.
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