Rockets predicted to cut ties with Kevin Durant, acquire $125 million Nuggets NBA champion guard
The Houston Rockets were linked to a blockbuster trade for an accomplished Denver Nuggets contributor.
Rockets predicted to cut ties with Kevin Durant, acquire $125 million Nuggets NBA champion guard originally appeared on The Sporting News . Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here . Kevin Durant’s first season with the Houston Rockets wasn’t ideal.
The former Phoenix Suns superstar forward joined Houston in the summer via a blockbuster trade, hoping to make a splash in Year 1. From an individual success vantage point, Durant did just that, averaging 26. 0 points per contest while shooting 52.
0% from the field and 41. 3% from three. Regarding team success, though, Durant came up short, as the Los Angeles Lakers eliminated the Rockets in the first round of the postseason.
While there’s no guarantee that Durant’s stint with Houston will end after one season, there’s a legitimate possibility that he could at least get shopped around the league. If he is, Bleacher Report’s Andy Bailey believes the Rockets should attempt to acquire a Denver Nuggets NBA champion guard in return. “For the Rockets, it'll be tough to get many teams to surrender real draft assets for a soon-to-be-38-year-old who's struggled to fit in on four different teams now, but the Nuggets may be desperate enough to do just that,” Bailey wrote Saturday.