Rockets Season REVIEWS: Why Kevin Durant Trade Was A SUCCESS Despite Houston’s Up-And-Down Year
Rockets Season REVIEWS: Why Kevin Durant Trade Was A SUCCESS Despite Houston’s Up-And-Down Year
Houston Rockets redefine expectations as Kevin Durant’s debut season delivers high drama, All-NBA performances, and locker room intrigue. Did KD’s arrival fully unlock Houston’s young core—or expose new questions for the franchise’s future? Burner Gate drama, injury setbacks, and an intense playoff push left fans wondering what comes next for basketball in Space City.
Host Jackson Gatlin (@JTGatlin) is joined by cohost SportsRadio 610’s Brandon Scott (@brandonkscott) break down Kevin Durant’s record-setting scoring, late-game heroics, and surprising playmaking struggles. The discussion spotlights Jalen Green and Alperen Sengun’s development, key injuries to Fred VanVleet and Steven Adams, and Ime Udoka’s tactical adjustments down the stretch. Is KD’s leadership the key to Houston’s next chapter, or should the Rockets shake up the roster again this offseason? Don’t miss this honest review and letter-grade verdict on Kevin Durant’s unforgettable Rockets campaign.
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KD is the new Houston Scottie Pippen
KD is the only reason why Houston Rockets made back to the playoffs.
It wasn't successful ، Kd ruined the chemistry and messed up the locker room, it did more damage than benefits , had more cons than pros , period!
Alperen Şengün didn’t want KD to be the leader. Alperen Şengün wanted to be the leader, but Alperen Şengün has peaked as a basketball player which isn’t good enough.
Guys, KD is a decent passer.
KD has played a few times as a first ball handler until Phoenix decided to get rid off CP3.
Now, Rockets add another level to his challenges 😂. Set the table for a talented guys that aren't yet in theirs primes. That's a good formula for high rate turnover.
Its a no brainer, its a good season given the injuries and the no REAL FACILITATOR/STABILIZER player. This is a guaranteed 60 win season if not for those self inflicted losses 🤷♂️
Yeah KD is your main weapon and not your leader, but how about when FVV comes back and Adams. Yeah Fred not at full strength but the in game IQ is 2nd to none on this current roster 😂 he just need to play stabilizer role like Conley provides in MIN
Htfn it wasnt!!!
We can’t rush the process of the growth. With our young talent we had earlier. Ask the OKC Thunder.
KD didn’t issue apology. It is bigger than burner thing itself. Superiority complex?
Some fans want to trade Kd just to look for another kd😂. No you add to Kd.
Kd, Ime, Stone, and Reed fanboy Rockets community!! You all truly disgusting swamp.
Please trade Amen and Alpi to another team..
Trading JG4 out was succesfull , however instead of KD another superstar with no burner account would help this young core more, individual regular season stats meant nothing since he could not play in playoffs. All young core regressed this year , Ime + Stone + KD burner + injuries are all part of the blame . Which one is more important next year for rockets : A) providing help defense to KD again and arrange his minutes like this year (Ime treated everyone as role player other than KD and Amen minutes) so he can average 26 points with good eff again so people can say after an unsuccesfull season again: omg KD is A , A+ all-nba , thats enough for rockets lets blame someone left from young core again B) Change the whole team including Ime (dont touch young core) and create a young team which has depth in roster and gain success just like okc, sas. The change should start with head-coach rest should be bringing guards , then changing bench , lastly trade KD for someone younger or if you keep KD make KD off-ball , decrease his minutes , dont let rockets fans watch another KD-Alpi go iso and everyone else watch type offense season again
Have the Turkish fans heard of gobekli tepe?
This summer the rockets need to get an impact player this summer and I wouldn't sign Tari Eason back either. Sometimes you got to realize they may not have the right players them players should be better by now.
Kevin Durant gave up on us
Kudos to Jackson not laughing at his face when he sad KD didn't watch the game because they were on home turf.
That should be a lawyer or a PR person, he did a great job telling us KD is not the problem.
Great show. Need the 4 man pod Jackson! With B Scott, Ben and Madison.
Letting KD off the hook. Look at his career stats, he has always had TOs like this, in fact, this year was he had less than his previous average. This is a team game, burner-gate killed our camaraderie, get rid of his ass. Send Ime with him.
what i feel is KD will be valuable even after the next season.. everybody is like he is going down after the season..one fully healthy season of Houston Rockets with KD as the finisher not ball handler .. lets go. and if this doesnt work we still will get some good value for KD. Just provide KD some space man .. we have to maximise that all time great..Ime is useless.
Turkish fans trying to trade KD cause alpi can't shoot his free throws .. your boi is a bust.. even if u trade KD for any star he is going to be better than Alpi ..cope is the only solution for turkish community here..
We Turkish fans think it would be great if Sengun got out of this trash team and went to Celtic… KD messes up everywhere he goes… KD and Udoka can't make the playoffs, Houston will either get eliminated in the first round or not…. You'll remember these words at the end of the season, don't worry… Sengun would be amazing at Celtic because they have good shooters… That's why we want Celtic… You'll see, Sengun will be king in the East…
To say that the burner account didn't affect them and they could have a relationship of joking around in the locker room. What??? Ray Charles and Stevie Wonder could see something was off with this team. Say what you want about the last year with Jalen Green and the entire group had chemistry. They played hard and with passion and most importantly they played for each other unlike this year with KD. They didn't have all those horrible losses to bad teams and blowing leads. Compare this year's team with KD and last year's team without KD. Difference is they played for each other and they played with passion and grit. This year that didn't exist. To say the burner account didn't have an effect. Come on. Stop!!!!