{"id":109235,"date":"2025-06-19T08:18:20","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T08:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/109235\/"},"modified":"2025-06-19T08:18:20","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T08:18:20","slug":"heat-rockets-have-highest-odds-to-land-kevin-durant-in-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/109235\/","title":{"rendered":"Heat, Rockets have highest odds to land Kevin Durant in trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;right:0;bottom:0;width:100%;height:100%;z-index:2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/84195721007-k-durant.jpg\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"vidplayicon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/appservices\/universal-web\/universal\/icons\/icon-play-alt-white.svg\" alt=\"play\" style=\"height:40px;margin:auto 18px auto 27px;width:40px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Kevin Durant on the scrutiny that comes with trade talks<\/p>\n<p>Phoenix Suns&#8217; Kevin Durant talked about the pressure involved in trade talks back in February after the trade deadline.<\/p>\n<p>Durant&#8217;s preferred destinations include the Heat, Rockets, and Spurs.Durant has one year remaining on his current contract with the Phoenix Suns.<\/p>\n<p>More than a handful of teams have been mentioned in trade talks regarding <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/phoenix-suns\/21\/\" data-autotag=\"5b1d8499-f4c6-4857-a8e9-6d2e8a35bac3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Phoenix Suns<\/a> superstar Kevin Durant.<\/p>\n<p>DraftKings lists all of them and then some.<\/p>\n<p>The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/miami-heat\/14\/\" data-autotag=\"2fc7081f-f0b3-4b1d-b589-781c9028a4e7\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Miami Heat<\/a> (+250) and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/houston-rockets\/10\/\" data-autotag=\"13a51ca7-e216-40c0-a272-58d18f5541d7\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Houston Rockets<\/a> (+250) are now tied for the highest odds as of Tuesday, June 17, to have Durant at the start of the 2025-26 season.<\/p>\n<p>The Heat had the best odds Monday, June 16, at +200.<\/p>\n<p>The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/san-antonio-spurs\/24\/\" data-autotag=\"13196729-d867-4914-8227-582a16eadb0b\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">San Antonio Spurs<\/a> and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/minnesota-timberwolves\/16\/\" data-autotag=\"ac5e47f0-6bd5-488e-9fd0-a3a235704d6f\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Minnesota Timberwolves<\/a> are each at +350. The T-Wolves had the highest odds Sunday, June 15, at +160.<\/p>\n<p>Durant has one more year left on his four-year, $194-million deal. The Heat, Rockets and Spurs are his preferred destinations.<\/p>\n<p>The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/toronto-raptors\/28\/\" data-autotag=\"c42c0dfa-381f-4c0e-89cb-1ca38431f316\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Toronto Raptors<\/a> (+1200) remain fifth, but took a huge leap in odds from +1200 to +500.<\/p>\n<p>Phoenix&#8217;s odds increased from +2000 to +1500. The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/memphis-grizzlies\/29\/\" data-autotag=\"14fae80b-1f91-422e-983f-9b615a7fd757\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Memphis Grizzlies<\/a> remain at +2000 while the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/new-york-knicks\/18\/\" data-autotag=\"8b753024-9401-4cc8-9e23-5a6cdca0282d\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">New York Knicks<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/cleveland-cavaliers\/5\/\" data-autotag=\"90b53492-af62-4517-8ec8-642f11795510\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Cleveland Cavaliers<\/a> and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/boston-celtics\/2\/\" data-autotag=\"593bbaa3-06f5-4574-8d4d-eda805c7dc23\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Boston Celtics<\/a> stay at +3000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"related-link\">More: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azcentral.com\/story\/sports\/nba\/suns\/2025\/06\/15\/phoenix-suns-kevin-durant-trade-options\/84218929007\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Can Phoenix Suns land best deal and trade Kevin Durant to preferred destination?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Have opinions about the current state of the\u00a0Suns? Reach Suns Insider Duane Rankin at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:dmrankin@gannett.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">dmrankin@gannett.com<\/a>\u00a0or contact him at 480-810-5518. Follow him on X, formerly Twitter, at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DuaneRankin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">@DuaneRankin<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Support local journalism: Subscribe to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cm.azcentral.com\/specialoffer?gps-source=CPNEWS&amp;utm_medium=onsite&amp;utm_source=TAGLINE&amp;utm_campaign=NEWSROOM&amp;utm_content=JEREMYCLUFF\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">azcentral.com<\/a>\u00a0today.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kevin Durant on the scrutiny that comes with trade talks Phoenix Suns&#8217; Kevin Durant talked about the pressure&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":109236,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3794],"tags":[2126,673,1085,7,45,75,306,46,305,193,232,2133,2127,294,144,2125,292,194,4066,1936,938,304,293,177,295,189,307,152,70,85,6,239,1090,191,67,61,134,2065,472,132,681,211,672,474,66,83,534,55,2128,604,308,680,476,1084,303],"class_list":{"0":"post-109235","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston-rockets","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-antonio","10":"tag-az","11":"tag-basketball","12":"tag-boston","13":"tag-boston-celtics","14":"tag-cavaliers","15":"tag-celtics","16":"tag-cleveland","17":"tag-cleveland-cavaliers","18":"tag-draftkings","19":"tag-durant","20":"tag-enabled","21":"tag-grizzlies","22":"tag-heat","23":"tag-highlights","24":"tag-houston","25":"tag-houston-rockets","26":"tag-houstonrockets","27":"tag-kevin","28":"tag-kevin-durant","29":"tag-knicks","30":"tag-memphis","31":"tag-memphis-grizzlies","32":"tag-miami","33":"tag-miami-heat","34":"tag-minnesota","35":"tag-minnesota-timberwolves","36":"tag-national","37":"tag-national-sports","38":"tag-nba","39":"tag-new","40":"tag-new-visitors-az","41":"tag-new-york-knicks","42":"tag-news","43":"tag-overall","44":"tag-overall-positive","45":"tag-phoenix","46":"tag-phoenix-suns","47":"tag-positive","48":"tag-raptors","49":"tag-rockets","50":"tag-san","51":"tag-san-antonio-spurs","52":"tag-sports","53":"tag-sports-news","54":"tag-spurs","55":"tag-story","56":"tag-story-highlights-ai-enabled","57":"tag-suns","58":"tag-timberwolves","59":"tag-toronto","60":"tag-toronto-raptors","61":"tag-visitors","62":"tag-york"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}