Draymond & Baron React to Kevin Durant Being Traded To The Rockets

Draymond & Baron React to Kevin Durant Being Traded To The Rockets

uh obviously the Phoenix Suns has agreed on a blockbuster trade send a 15time NBA Allstar twotime final MVP Kevin Durant to the Houston Rockets for Jaylen Green Dylan Brooks the number 10 pick in this year’s NBA draft and five second round picks um so just taking that into account uh obviously the deal is done now um you know what’s your take on these new look Rockets add KD in you know
man that that was gonna be my Jaden Green
that was gonna be my question to you you know I’ve been saying that KD is an upgrade when you think about what the Rockets needed they need efficient scoring and what KD brings in presence his offensive awareness his defensive awareness his overall I’m aiming to win a championship i think it’s a fair trade right um I wanted to know how you felt because I was analyzing y’all game and y’all series as the reason why this trade happened because when you look at a Jaylen Green and you look at Dylan Brooks and you say when they played well did the Rockets win
more than likely you know they were number in in that series against Golden State oh right in that series
Jaylen Green had one great game right they won
dylan Brooks
let’s say he was as consist he was consistent right and he didn’t like he had a consistent series
um Jaylen Green had a up and down series right now you start looking at who could they rely on vanfleet Son and Thompson
yep and so Thompson leapfrogs
i would say they I I here’s what I was saying i know no one gives them credit
but also I thought Jabari Smith was really
That’s what I was saying yes I thought so too and I thought Jabari Smith worked his way back from almost going the wrong way as a number two pick to like hold on I don’t like I could compete at this level and I think he worked his way back and will probably be in the star lineup of this Rockets team moving forward and I think welld deserved so you know when I look at it and you know you mentioned those two guys listen anytime you can add a Kevin Durant it’s an upgrade i don’t care who you are as a team any team in the in the world in basketball if you add Kevin Durant it’s an upgrade now you start speaking on like if you add Kevin Durant for Steph Curry now those are different conversations but if you’re just in this case you know or most cases you add Kevin Durant to the roster it’s that it’s going to be an upgrade so make no mistake about it um you know everybody trying to make like these conversation pieces it’s KD
you add him to the roster your roster is better now
you talk about Now if you want to discuss the business of basketball then you have a different discussion when you start talking about salary and what happens with caps and all that’s a totally different question but that’s not what we’re talking about here what we’re talking about here is you add KD to that team is that team better and where they struggled was you know Jaylen had a very tough playoff series you’d like to think if he had a better playoff series they win who knows but you you’d like to at least think that Dylan Brooks was like you said he was consistent all year uh he played well he shot the ball really well this year dylan Brooks is who he is on a contract like Dylan Brooks on you will always kind of be the throw in piece number absolutely yeah you know and that’s just kind of the nature nature of the business i don’t think Dylan Brooks was traded because Dylan Brooks did anything wrong um in this situation I think Dylan Brooks was traded because quite honestly that’s how this business works and your contract make the money work they want Kevin Durant your contract make the money work and you know when you look at the way this team has been built of course they’re going to trade throw throw Dylan Brooks in to make that money work before they throw Jabari uh Smith in or before they throw uh Tyrese like these these young guys that were drafted by this general manager now Jaylen Green was as well he ain’t going to just get rid of all the people he drafted you know he got rid of one and so I think when I look at this it’s an upgrade uh KD has his familiarity with EMA as a coach um I think KD still wants to compete at a high level and I think this team like when you look at the rosters of everywhere we heard KD may go this team did the least gutting of a roster that a team may have had to do to still to still make an upgrade and still keep a keep the roster in a good spot so um that’s what I think happens for the Rockets that’s that’s the way I think it looks for them for KD talk about Phoenix on the other hand I think it’s a little different situation but for the Rockets I think it’s good also shout out to Freddy V uh got a new two-year
shout out to Fred
deal to stay with the Rockets well man the way I saw him lead that team in the playoffs um like and and they’re going to need his leadership they’re going to need his leadership with that team uh I think with with with with Fred’s demeanor and how Fred go about things and with KD and how KD go about things I think it’ll be a good match
yeah you get
because some of the stuff that Exactly some of the stuff that K don’t want to do and people try to make it like an indictment on K’s character know there’s just some stuff that we’re all human beings and there’s some we all have strengths we all have weaknesses and certain things that KD don’t like to do Fred will do that and guess what on a basketball team in team sports that’s actually how it’s supposed to work
and so you know I think this puts them in a really good position i think they’re obviously going to be a team to be reckoned with you expect Singon to make a big jump after the playoffs he had um you know expect Tyrese and all those guys to make jumps so it’ll be interesting i think you know I think that team is in a really good position and I definitely think it’s an upgrade
shout out to our boy Forever and Fleek again i mean I just I I totally agree [Music]

Kevin Durant is headed to the Houston Rockets, and Draymond Green and Baron Davis break down every angle of the NBA’s biggest trade. Why did the Suns move on? How does KD fit with Fred VanVleet, Sengun, and Ime Udoka’s system? And was it worth giving up Jalen Green, Dillon Brooks, and the #10 pick?

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