The seven-team commerce that sends star ahead Kevin Durant and free agent huge man Clint Capela (through sign-and-trade) to Houston is now official, in response to press releases from a number of groups, together with the Rockets.
“Having performed towards Kevin and coached him earlier than, I do know he’s the kind of competitor who suits with what we’ve been constructing right here in Houston,” head coach Ime Udoka stated in a press release. “His ability degree, love of basketball, and dedication to his craft have made him one of the revered gamers of his era, and my employees and I are excited to work with him.”
The transfer units a brand new NBA report for many groups concerned in a single commerce. The phrases of the deal are as follows:
- Rockets purchase:
- Suns purchase:
- Jalen Inexperienced (from Rockets)
- Dillon Brooks (from Rockets)
- Daeqwon Plowden (from Hawks)
- The draft rights to Khaman Maluach (No. 10 decide; from Rockets)
- The draft rights to Rasheer Fleming (No. 31 decide; from Timberwolves)
- The draft rights to Koby Brea (No. 41 decide; from Warriors)
- Both the Thunder’s, Mavericks’, or Sixers’ 2026 second-round decide (whichever is second-most favorable; from Rockets)
- Lakers purchase:
- The draft rights to Adou Thiero (No. 36 decide; from Nets)
- Warriors purchase:
- Timberwolves purchase:
- The draft rights to Rocco Zikarsky (No. 45 decide; from Lakers)
- Both the Warriors’ or Nuggets’ 2026 second-round decide (whichever is least favorable; from Suns)
- Both the Suns’ or Rockets’ 2032 second-round decide (whichever is most favorable; from Suns/Rockets)
- Be aware: The Suns, not the Rockets, retain the least favorable of the 2 picks.
- Money (from Lakers).
- Nets purchase:
- Both the Clippers’ 2026 second-round decide or essentially the most favorable of the Celtics’, Pacers’, and Warmth’s 2026 second-round picks (whichever is least favorable; from Rockets)
- The Celtics’ 2030 second-round decide (from Rockets)
- Hawks purchase:
- David Roddy (from Rockets)
- The correct to swap their very own 2031 second-round decide for the Rockets’ 2031 second-round decide (from Rockets)
- Money (from Rockets)
Phrase first broke on Wednesday that the Durant commerce was being expanded to be accomplished as a seven-team deal. For essentially the most half, it was only a matter of folding separate draft-night commerce agreements right into a single transaction.
Along with the unique Durant blockbuster (story), this transaction incorporates commerce agreements between the Suns and Nets (story), Suns and Warriors (story), Suns and Timberwolves (story), and Lakers and Timberwolves (story), in addition to the sign-and-trade deal sending Capela from the Hawks to the Rockets (story).
The one two new additions to this deal are Plowden and Roddy, who’re each coming into the second yr of two-way contracts. The addition of Plowden ensures that the Hawks are “touching” a second staff in addition to Houston within the deal. He’s being waived by the Suns, reviews Duane Rankin of The Arizona Republic (Twitter hyperlink).
In trade for sending out Plowden, the Hawks are filling that newly opened two-way slot with Roddy, a former first-round decide who spent greater than half of the 2024/25 season in Atlanta on a normal contract.
Attaching the Capela sign-and-trade deal into this transaction has cap-related advantages for the Rockets, who would in any other case have needed to ship out a separate matching wage with the intention to signal Capela to his reported three-year, $21MM deal.
Nevertheless, for essentially the most half, amalgamating all these draft-night offers is nearly streamlining the method for a number of groups, permitting them to participate in (or wait out) fewer commerce calls and get their newly acquired rookies underneath contract sooner.
