{"id":109290,"date":"2025-06-19T09:07:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T09:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/109290\/"},"modified":"2025-06-19T09:07:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T09:07:11","slug":"kevin-durant-trade-talks-not-progressing-as-fast-as-suns-hoped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/109290\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Durant Trade Talks Not Progressing As Fast As Suns Hoped"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Phoenix Suns&#8217; attempts to trade Kevin Durant are not progressing as fast as the team hoped, according to Marc Stein of The Stein Line and Jake Fischer of The People&#8217;s Insider.<\/p>\n<p>The Rockets and Spurs don&#8217;t feel a need to include several assets for Durant due to having a younger core, while the Timberwolves&#8217; interest remains in flux.<\/p>\n<p>Durant also reportedly has <a href=\"https:\/\/basketball.realgm.com\/wiretap\/280804\/Kevin-Durant-Has-No-Interest-In-Trade-To-Wolves-Focused-On-Rockets-Heat-Spurs\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">no interest<\/a> in joining Minnesota.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Suns, who were looking to have completed a trade before the draft, could <a href=\"https:\/\/basketball.realgm.com\/wiretap\/280822\/Suns-Could-Extend-Kevin-Durant-Trade-Talks-Beyond-Draft-If-Offers-Dont-Improve\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">extend talks past June 25<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/basketball.realgm.com\/wiretap\/280786\/Heat-Rockets-Spurs-Are-Kevin-Durants-Preferred-Trade-Destinations;-Suns-Focused-On-Getting-Best-Deal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Heat, Spurs, and Rockets<\/a> are Durant&#8217;s preferred trade destinations.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Phoenix Suns&#8217; attempts to trade Kevin Durant are not progressing as fast as the team hoped, according&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98644,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3791],"tags":[7,22924,6,2065,472,4045,331,604],"class_list":{"0":"post-109290","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix-suns","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-kevin-durant-trade-talks-not-progressing-as-fast-as-suns-hoped","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-phoenix","12":"tag-phoenix-suns","13":"tag-phoenixsuns","14":"tag-realgm-wiretap","15":"tag-suns"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114709243308028252","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109290","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=109290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}