Durant traded to Houston Rockets for Green, Brooks, picks: Report

Phoenix Suns All-Star guardant Kevin Durant volition articulation his 5th NBA squad aft being traded to the Houston Rockets.

The Houston Rockets are acquiring 15-time All-Star guardant Kevin Durant from the Phoenix Suns successful speech for defender Jalen Green and guardant Dillon Brooks arsenic good arsenic the fig 10 wide prime successful the 2025 NBA Draft and 5 second-round picks, ESPN reported connected Sunday.

The commercialized tin beryllium completed erstwhile the caller league twelvemonth for the US National Basketball Association (NBA) begins connected July 6. At that point, Durant volition beryllium eligible to motion a two-year hold worthy up to $122m.

Durant has 1 play near connected his existent woody and is acceptable to gain $54.7m successful 2025-26.

Durant volition articulation a Rockets squad that finished the regular play arsenic the 2nd effect successful the Western Conference. The prima guardant volition articulation All-Star Alperen Sengun, Amen Thompson and Fred VanVleet, among others, successful Houston.

Durant, who turns 37 successful September, played successful 62 games with the Suns successful 2024-25. He averaged 26.6 points, 6.0 rebounds, 4.2 assists and 1.2 blocks, not acold disconnected of his vocation averages. He besides changeable 43.0 percent from three-point range.

Selected to the All-NBA archetypal squad six times, Durant has appeared successful 1,123 games with the Seattle SuperSonics/Oklahoma City Thunder (2007-16), Golden State Warriors (2016-19), Brooklyn Nets (2020-23) and Suns. He has vocation averages of 27.2 points, 7.0 rebounds. 4.4 assists and 1.1 blocks, shooting 39 percent from agelong distance.

Green, 23, averaged 21.0 points, 4.6 rebounds and 3.4 assists portion starting successful each 82 games this season. He present ventures to Phoenix to articulation All-Star Devin Booker successful a potent backcourt.

He has contributed 20.1 points, 4.3 boards and 3.4 assists successful 307 games since being selected by the Rockets with the 2nd wide prime of the 2021 NBA Draft.

Brooks, 29, averaged 14.0 points, 3.7 rebounds and 1.7 assists successful 75 games this season.

He has contributed 14.2 points, 3.2 boards and 2.0 assists successful 492 games with the Memphis Grizzlies (2017-23) and Rockets. He was selected by Houston successful the 2nd circular of the 2017 NBA Draft.

Jalen Green of the Houston Rockets, left, is the centrepiece of the commercialized going backmost to the Phoenix Suns successful the Kevin Durant commercialized [File: Alex Slitz /Getty Images via AFP]