League sources tell The Athletic that the Rockets and Suns are working on expanding the Kevin Durant trade into a deal that would involve a league-record seven teams. Other teams involved in negotiations at the moment include the Atlanta Hawks, Brooklyn Nets, Golden State Warriors, Los Angeles Lakers and Minnesota Timberwolves, league sources say.
No trade is imminent, and details are being ironed out as of Wednesday night.
In a would-be seven-team trade, there is an unprecedented amount of detail. Unfortunately, while a seven-team trade would make for a thrilling topic at a cocktail party, there haven’t been many unexpected developments in these negotiations. At least in the iterations of the deal discussed so far, most of the recognizable names are from trades that have already been agreed to and reported but not yet finalized.
The Hawks would be sending Clint Capela to the Rockets in what would become a sign-and-trade, league sources say. Durant would go to Houston. The previously reported return for him, including Dillon Brooks and Jalen Green, would go to Phoenix. Only five players who were in the NBA last season are being discussed in the current iteration of the trade, as of now: Durant, Brooks, Green, Clint Capela and Daeqwon Plowden, league sources say. The rest of the players being discussed are all from already-agreed-upon draft-night trades that are yet to be finalized and can't be until July 6.
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MEGA TRADE
We’re giving up Knecht and getting Amen got it
Woj bomb
I’m sorry, literally what in the actual fuck am I seeing here
The human mind can only barely comprehend this level of insanity, this is a mind screw in transactional form
Mfs having too much fun with the ESPN trade machine
Sounds like a logistical nightmare not going to lie lmao
This is the same shit that they said about the Fox trade but it ended up only being three teams
Getting 7 teams to agree on something that they all think benefits them seems…unlikely
Is this the Onion?
Let us cook
why stop at 7? rotate the whole league clockwise
Beal gone?
Too many cooks! **^(TOO MANY COOKS!)**
The suns are trying to get under the 2nd apron so maybe royce and grayson are be routed somewhere?
Pretty much a quarter of the league
7 team trade that creates 7 trade exceptions. Ffs
Gang bang on
2K ONLY ALLOWS FOUR TEAMS!!!!! INVALID!
How am I gonna do fake trades for this? fanspo only lets me use 5 teams
So Wolves part is just the sending of 31st pick to Phoenix if I’m reading that right?
The hell we doing here😭
7 teams coming to an agreement is fucking crazy I wanna see this actually happen lmao
S/O Daeqwon Plowden
Sam Presti is about to jump into this trade just because he can.
1/4th of the league involved in a single trade would be wild.
We’ll prob get a 2nd and Cash. Very excited to see Cash Considerations suit up for us.
Trade FreakOff
NBA version of musical chairs