Kevin Durant traded to Rockets *Emergency Pod*
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🗓️ 22 June 2025
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Kevin Durant was traded to the Houston Rockets and the Athletic NBA Daily gang is here to break it down.
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| 0:00.0 | All right, everybody, we are live. |
| 0:09.2 | Kevin Durant just traded the athletic NBA Daily emergency podcast. |
| 0:13.9 | I thought this was over, guys. |
| 0:15.5 | I'm Dave Dufour, here with Esperiheny and Zena Keda on the morning of NBA finals game seven. And of course, |
| 0:23.2 | guys, we are here talking about Kevin Durant. As usual, heading into the summer, Kevin Durant |
| 0:29.1 | gets moved from Phoenix to the Rockets for the number 10 overall pick in the upcoming draft, |
| 0:35.1 | Jalen Green, Dylan Brooks, five second round picks. |
| 0:39.2 | Guys, who won the trade? I think this is easy. Houston. Like, yeah. Yeah. I think it's so, |
| 0:46.1 | it's so obvious. Number one, you get an immediate score in Kevin Durant, 27, 28 per night. |
| 0:54.2 | You bet on that. |
| 0:55.7 | And then you didn't give up your future, right? |
| 0:59.0 | Like you have Alprin, you have Amen. |
| 1:02.1 | You have, and then you have a veteran point guard still with preventively that can play with a player like Kevin Durant. |
| 1:07.0 | But the biggest one that we always forget somehow, Jabari Smith Jr. wasn't in that trade. |
| 1:11.5 | That is so exciting for Houston. |
| 1:13.9 | You've got this size. |
| 1:15.2 | You didn't mortgage your future. |
| 1:17.0 | And for the next two, three years, like Houston, depending on how long KD wants to play, |
| 1:23.2 | Houston is looking scary. |
| 1:25.0 | Like, this is awesome for them. |
| 1:30.5 | Yeah, I love the fact that they still cape kept their flexibility the fact that they still have young eyes they can give more |
| 1:35.6 | opportunity to read shepherd and cam whitmore if they want to they can make trades still this |
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