I tried to care about the Kevin Durant trade but I just can’t do it
“KD is a snake”
I will never forget the image that my friend sent me a text of the beach in which he was in Maine, just after July 4, 2016. A disgruntled basketball fan had sported these words in the sand, capturing what I felt myself and many other young basketball fans. Kevin Durant, who was at worst the third best player in the world at the time, had signed with the Golden Warriors of 73 winners, and life as we knew.
But here we are in 2025, and during and Houston’s Rockets ask me to take care of again. Shams Charania’s post-refic tweet all reminding us of the end of the latest KD’s commercial saga landed on my phone today in the same way as the original; Not like a firecracker but a meager fixed. “Oh, cool. Anyway …” was my emotion, not a daring statement that it would change everything, or would not judge anyone who is an invertebrate without legs.
No one, especially not me, seems to worry about this decision. I became 20 times more moving on the Pélicans de la Nouvelle-Orleans exchanging their choice of first unprotected round in 2026 on the night of the recovery night than on this superstar of the quotation, whose constant movements leave me exhausted. It’s almost a week later, and does anyone even remember that this job has happened? Come the opening party, will I just forget that Kevin Durant is on the Rockets as if he were a receiver of NFL slot machines that I notice is on the broncos during my fantastic football project? It’s not like 2016, not even close.
To be fair, during is old now, and it is not clear its impact on the victory of merits near these previous levels of excitation. The second most male decision of the NBA was almost nine years ago. This led to two championships and two MVPs in finals, but during the teams has changed three times since then, more recently in a business with the Houston Rockets. Before that, he started a basketball revolution in Brooklyn with Kyrie Irving, who may have condemned a decade of Nets basketball. By forcing his way, he found himself in Phoenix for all their active portfolio, which – with a trade by Bradley Beal – may have condemned a decade of Su … you get it.
Durant could not have been happy in a team since his second year in Golden State, but he was always able to raise me. I was enraged when he went to the Warriors. I was annoyed when he ended up in Brooklyn because they are at the Eastern Conference with My Celtics, and legitimately surprised when he was exchanged in Phoenix – he came out of the left field. But this business of Houston? I end.
During is still a great player, but when you change the team about every two years of my whole teenage and adult life, I start to lose all interest. What, this Houston situation will suddenly present the happiness that during was so popularized? This is what they try to sell us, but until it happens, I don’t buy it.
Houston rightly said he was for Durant, because the price requested was not crazy. This certainly increases their ceiling and guarantees that there is no longer a debate on who takes the last blow. But it is always after almost a decade of evidence to prove that he will not be happy; And perhaps more unfortunately, five years of evidence that a team led by Durant is not going anywhere.
The Nets and Suns Durant and Suns teams won two eliminatory series in total, and even if I do not hit the Rockets for this, I am just sick to claim that during the change of fortune. Nothing we have seen in the past six years makes me think it is.
