{"id":51205,"date":"2025-07-09T10:57:18","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T10:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/51205\/"},"modified":"2025-07-09T10:57:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T10:57:18","slug":"kevin-durant-responds-to-new-post-after-being-traded-to-houston-rockets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/51205\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Durant Responds to New Post After Being Traded to Houston Rockets"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kevin Durant Responds to New Post After Being Traded to Houston Rockets<\/a> originally appeared on Athlon Sports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A 15\u2011time All\u2011Star, two\u2011time NBA champion, two-time Finals MVP and 2014 league MVP, Kevin Durant is one of the most decorated players in NBA history.<\/p>\n

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Now, one of the league’s most accomplished players joins a 52-win Houston Rockets team fresh off its first division title and playoff berth since 2020.<\/p>\n

As fans gear up to watch Durant don the Rockets uniform for the first time, the franchise kicked off the week with a dramatic Instagram drop.<\/p>\n

In the clip, shared on their official account on Monday, a Phoenix Suns\u2011style No. 35 jersey is set ablaze, only to reveal Kevin Durant\u2019s new Rockets No. 7 uniform emerging from the flames, along with the caption, “KD7.”<\/p>\n

Within moments, Durant himself commented on the post, \u201cThey been cookin since yesterday. This is tough.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The uniform reveal comes on the heels of the most complex trade in NBA history<\/a>; a seven\u2011team, 13\u2011player deal that officially landed Durant in Houston on Sunday. <\/p>\n

Orchestrated as the league\u2019s first seven\u2011team swap, the blockbuster involved the Phoenix Suns, Brooklyn Nets, Golden State Warriors, Atlanta Hawks, Los Angeles Lakers, Minnesota Timberwolves and Rockets.<\/p>\n

Alongside Durant, Houston also welcomed veteran center Clint Capela, while Phoenix received a package headlined by Jalen Green, Dillon Brooks, Daeqwon Plowden and multiple future second\u2011round picks.<\/p>\n

Other teams reshuffled draft rights and picks, with the Warriors netting two rookie standouts and the Lakers acquiring the draft rights to Adou Thiero.<\/p>\n

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Under the terms, Durant is under contract for $54.7 million in 2025\u201126, with a potential two\u2011year extension worth up to $122 million.<\/p>\n

\"Kevin<\/p>\n

Kevin Durant (35) dribbles the ball during a game between the Phoenix Suns and Los Angeles Lakers at Crypto.com Arena.Kirby Lee-Imagn Images<\/p>\n

For Durant, the move represents the fifth chapter of a storied career.<\/p>\n

After college stardom at Texas and a Rookie of the Year campaign in Oklahoma City, he captured back\u2011to\u2011back titles in Golden State before spending three years in Brooklyn and another three years Phoenix.<\/p>\n

Through all of this, he remained one of the game’s best pure scorers, never dropping below 25 points per game and in 2024-25, shot 52.7% from the floor, 43% from deep and 83.9% from the free-throw line, all at the age of 36.<\/p>\n

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Related: Rockets Release NBA Veteran Days After Kevin Durant Trade<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Related: Dennis Schroder Sends 3-Word Message After Joining Sacramento Kings<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

This story was originally reported by Athlon Sports<\/a> on Jul 8, 2025, where it first appeared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kevin Durant Responds to New Post After Being Traded to Houston Rockets originally appeared on Athlon Sports. A…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":51206,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[17377,3119,3124,20539,34308,7190,3140,4345,3136,7192,3359,3141,3131,1260,6949,1721,358,3187],"class_list":{"0":"post-51205","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-adou-thiero","9":"tag-atlanta-hawks","10":"tag-brooklyn-nets","11":"tag-clint-capela","12":"tag-daeqwon-plowden","13":"tag-dillon-brooks","14":"tag-golden-state-warriors","15":"tag-houston","16":"tag-houston-rockets","17":"tag-jalen-green","18":"tag-kevin-durant","19":"tag-los-angeles-lakers","20":"tag-minnesota-timberwolves","21":"tag-nba","22":"tag-oklahoma-city","23":"tag-phoenix-suns","24":"tag-texas","25":"tag-tx"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114822922204642677","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51205","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=51205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}