TRADE REACTION 👀 Does the Kevin Durant move make the Houston Rockets TITLE contenders ⁉️🏆 | Get Up

TRADE REACTION 👀 Does the Kevin Durant move make the Houston Rockets TITLE contenders ⁉️🏆 | Get Up

the Phoenix Suns agreed on a blockbuster trade sending Kevin Durant to Houston for Jaylen Green Dylan Brooks the number 10 pick in this year’s draft and five second round picks the Rockets are one of Durant’s preferred landing spots he learned of this trade while he was on the stage at Fanatics Fest yesterday this was surreal it all actually happened and then he spoke about it with K adams you know when people could just hang your career in the balance like that and just choose what they want to do with your career is a nerve-wracking feeling but being able to uh kind of uh dictate what you want to do and then being with a team that values you and I’m looking forward to it having people are going to hold on to that dictate what you want to do did you have a hand in this most definitely i mean they asked me where I wanted to go some of my destinations I gave to them and here we are you all the leverage it It was It was a real thing though right like I mean you’re in the middle of your day you’re getting ready for game seven and then all of a sudden like I start getting notes like KD got there’s no way in the world that happened on the day of game seven and then you start to realize oh my god it happened while he’s on the stage at right this is the moment like literally the news breaks while he’s sitting up there and all these people are documenting it and whatever so Wendy that the circumstances are what they are the bottom line of it is Kevin Durant is a Houston rocket yeah I think what he said there in that interview was very important i think the Warriors could have traded for him last February he said “I don’t want to go.” And the Warriors backed off i think last week the the Timberwolves could have traded for him he said “I didn’t want to go the Timberwolves backed off.” And I think the Suns would have gotten better returns in both of those trades but he had agency he used that leverage he ends up going to Houston you say “Why does Houston do this deal?” You want to rank the Houston young players and their draft capital you’re ranking six seven names and lists before you get to Jaylen Green and Dylan Brooks and the number 10 pick and I understand the number 10 pick it’s a lottery pick it’s it’s quality but the the Rockets didn’t feel that they were going to get a player in this draft that materally going to help them and and they end up landing an offensive juggernaut which is exactly what they needed right exactly what they needed go ahead Keith no I just I just uh you know a little bit little bit more respect on Jaylen name i don’t think he was a six seventh prospect but no seriously no but ser lift to keep gave up i mean I’m But I I don’t think that’s just going by what I’ve seen yeah but they wanted they’ve been trying to trade him they were trying to move him well there’s your answer they they moved they they moved a guy that they wanted to trade for Kevin Durant let’s not argue over this just Just because they moved him don’t mean that he was a six or seven best the lowest well you got to get some talent from six or seven value i think what they gave up for him stunned me or or or more to the point what Phoenix got for him at this stage of his career i did an essay on this last week people if you’re talking about Kevin Durant as a diminished player you’re just not paying attention it’s not true kevin Durant in his right right now there was one player in history to have three consecutive seasons scoring 25 points a game on 5040 shooting it’s Kevin Durant and that streak is active he’s done it the last three years and I gave you numbers that demonstrate that his defense has been well above average he’s got blocks and steals and when his when he played his team was over 500 this year when he didn’t they were 317 kevin Durant like Steph and like LeBron has not really diminished that much i think that the Rockets got him for comparatively speaking a song and it is an unbelievably good trade for them i I think it it puts him right there with OKC to win the Western Conference to get to the NBA Finals i mean look you’re talking about a guy that hasn’t averaged under 25 points since his rookie year you’re talking about a guy who hasn’t shot under 50% since 2011 like think about that i mean th those numbers are staggering right and the fact that now you combine him with Shayon with the level of what they play i also think Emma Yudoka is probably the biggest winner walking away from this with the culture he’s been able to create in Houston and the physical well the essentially the timing of that right with other jobs up in the air New York potentially other teams calling but also guys the physicality that Houston plays with if there’s one thing we learned in these playoffs you need physical pieces they lost one well they lost one in Dylan Brooks i think that’s a that’s a major loss that’s an underrated loss but they still have all the pieces there said it he said it there they asked me where I wanted to go so he had control they asked me where I wanted to go they gave him that control of the game and that respect which he earned he deserved and all the numbers you say Greeny tell you this is still one of the great players in the game but does it feel like a blockbuster does it feel like a block yes it does how can it feel like a blockbuster when the numbers that we just spoke about when the number two seed stayed the number two seed yeah but we all we all thought that Houston was punching above their weight like everybody most of the people I talked to in NBA circles when we went to the playoffs everybody was like “Oh yeah we want to target Houston because we feel like they’re young they’re inexperienced okay they feel that way anymore.” No they do not but they feel very different where they didn’t play Jaylen Green down the stretch of the game down the stretch of a playoff game next year the ball’s going to be in Durant and the real thing about this from Phoenix’s standpoint when they traded for Durant it was a closed market durant went to the Nets and said “I only want to be a Phoenix Sun.” And yet they paid four picks three swaps really good young players again we have a closed market durant saying “I only want to go to Miami Houston and San Antonio but they didn’t get a premium back.” So they paid a premium in a closed market and sold in a closed market that’s what I meant by it doesn’t feel like a block and part of the story Keith is going to be about the teams that didn’t get him and I saw a lot of reaction yesterday on social particularly about the Miami Heat which was one of the three teams that KD had on his list and they seemed not willing to part with some players what did you think of that Keith uh it’s disappointing to me i remember Wendy said earlier you know obviously he has to agree to go to Miami and they were one of the teams right they tried to get him at the deadline but for underwhelming package right and no disrespect to the players that was involved that that uh that that uh Phoenix wanted but the package wasn’t you like you know like like Miami has to give that up not only like they lost Jimmy Butler but a chance to get a guy like Kevin Durant with the way the East is going to look in the next couple years pairing him with a with a bam bio and a Tala Herrell and not really losing a lot of core pieces right you lose Jame Haz you lose Hayward Smith and and Jo and Jokic but what Miami does is they grow their players so it don’t really matter what they would have lost right because they’re they’re a team that will get GLeague players and grow them they’re a team that that that that will get like that has um homegrown players so I’m really disappointed in Miami for not making this happen especially like I said with the loss of Jimmy Butler like for that package but for that package they have to get this done keith think about this though the two teams that have supposedly Miami not going all in on all their assets for Kevin Durant and the New York Knicks who said “Hey we’re not interested.” There’s still this guy in Milwaukee that just because he said in Brazil that “Hey I hope I can win a championship with the Bucks everybody thinks he’s going to be with the Bucks.” And think about Miami holding on to those assets to be all in on a Giannis spree same with New York and San Antonio is it all in i mean if you weren’t all in on Kevin Durant you better be all in on Giannis so so let’s make sure we’re all I’m saying for Miami right i’m saying for Miami too miami is those pieces all in is that a all-in thing or you’re not losing Bamabio or Talahara i would just say that the the the Heat had an opportunity to put a better package on the table at the trade deadline and this last week and elected not to so let’s look at their actions over I mean that’s the Miami Heat way their actions that’s what they think but I’m saying as a player and watching it like I’m I’m not going to not give a chance not to take Kevin Durant for that package that’s my whole thing that package of players with the 20th pick for a Hall of Famer and a guy to average 25 points a game with a up in the air east i’m doing that every day of the week and what do those actions tell us twice on Sundays yep but what do those actions tell us they like to do stuff a certain way that they those actions tell us they’re waiting for something they’re waiting for something else they’re waiting for something else and so Wait a minute exactly right thank you you beat me to it the the the put those Jiannis fingers in the air okay so we’ll have to wait and see if that winds up happening look and maybe this is tomorrow’s topic the East feels as wide open for the worst of all possible reasons i mean Jason Tatum is not going to play and Damen Lillard is not going to play and Tyrese Hallebertton is not going to play that’s three st superstars that go down with devastating injuries in these playoffs what does that mean for the Miami for the Knicks for the other teams in the Eastern Conference we’ll talk about it a lot of this will get reshaped between now and Wednesday and the NBA draft where the Mavericks are expected to take Cooper flag number one overall as our NBA draft first round coverage starts Wednesday you’ll see it on ABC and ESPN [Music]

On Get Up, Brian Windhorst, Jay Williams, Alan Hahn and Markieff Morris join Mike Greenberg to react to the blockbuster NBA trade that sent Kevin Durant from the Phoenix Suns to the Houston Rockets.

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