{"id":10124,"date":"2025-06-24T07:17:07","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T07:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/10124\/"},"modified":"2025-06-24T07:17:07","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T07:17:07","slug":"ime-udoka-badly-wanted-kevin-durant-in-houston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/10124\/","title":{"rendered":"Ime Udoka badly wanted Kevin Durant in Houston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>       Durant repeatedly complained both publicly and privately about Kerr\u2019s offensive principles during his final season with the Warriors, and he continued to do so even after he left for Brooklyn. The two have since reconciled, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theringer.com\/2025\/06\/23\/nba\/kevin-durant-trade-houston-rockets-legacy-career\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"Read more on The Ringer\" target=\"_blank\">league sources identify Kerr as among the reasons Durant opted not to return to Golden State at the trade deadline.<\/a> In Gotham, Durant had similar critiques of Nash\u2019s concepts, and the coach was later fired during Durant\u2019s last season. And this past season, cameras routinely caught him in verbal spars with Suns coach Mike Budenholzer, urging him to simplify the offense, yelling at him during possession changes, or pouting in the corner in protest as the offense flowed without him. -via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theringer.com\/2025\/06\/23\/nba\/kevin-durant-trade-houston-rockets-legacy-career\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> The Ringer<\/a> \/ June 24, 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Durant repeatedly complained both publicly and privately about Kerr\u2019s offensive principles during his final season with the Warriors,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10125,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[4345,11112,11111,11113,358,3187],"class_list":{"0":"post-10124","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-houston","9":"tag-ime-udoka","10":"tag-main-rumors","11":"tag-rafael-stone","12":"tag-texas","13":"tag-tx"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114737122272961438","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}