{"id":150264,"date":"2025-07-06T01:37:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-06T01:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/150264\/"},"modified":"2025-07-06T01:37:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-06T01:37:15","slug":"rockets-trade-forward-days-after-kevin-durant-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/150264\/","title":{"rendered":"Rockets Trade Forward Days After Kevin Durant Move"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rockets Trade Forward Days After Kevin Durant Move<\/a> originally appeared on Athlon Sports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Houston Rockets have definitely decided that this offseason is not the time to play it safe. First, they stunned everyone by pulling off a blockbuster move to bring Kevin Durant to town, a trade that instantly turned heads all around the league. But landing KD was just the beginning.<\/p>\n

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Now, with their sights firmly set on chasing a championship, the Rockets are making more moves to tweak the roster around their new superstar.<\/p>\n

According to The Athetic’s Kelly Iko, Houston has traded Cam Whitmore to the Washington Wizards for two second-round picks.<\/p>\n

Whitmore, who\u2019s about to turn 21 on Tuesday, was snagged by the Rockets as the 20th pick in the 2023 draft out of Villanova. He was actually their second first-rounder that year, coming in right after Amen Thompson.<\/p>\n

In his most recent season, Whitmore put up about 9.4 points and grabbed three boards a game, hitting 36% from deep on 183 attempts, a slight dip from his rookie year when he averaged 12.3 points and 3.8 rebounds with the same three-point clip.<\/p>\n

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Cam Whitmore played two seasons with the Houston Rockets after being drafted out of Villanova in 2023.USA Today Sports<\/p>\n

Apart from Whitmore and Durant, the Rockets also locked in Dorian Finney-Smith and made sure to keep some key pieces around, handing out extensions to Steven Adams and former first-rounder Jabari Smith. Safe to say, Houston\u2019s going all in to build a squad that can really contend.<\/p>\n

Based on the NBA title odds, the Rockets are now among the prime contenders to win a championship. Houston is listed at +850 on ESPN Bet<\/a> to win the 2025-26 title, behind only the defending champion Oklahoma City Thunder (+250), Cleveland Cavaliers (+800) and New York Knicks (+800).<\/p>\n

Related: Houston Rockets Alex Sengun is Among the NBA’s Top Centers<\/a><\/p>\n

This story was originally reported by Athlon Sports<\/a> on Jul 5, 2025, where it first appeared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rockets Trade Forward Days After Kevin Durant Move originally appeared on Athlon Sports. The Houston Rockets have definitely…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":150265,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3794],"tags":[883,7,4836,193,374,292,194,4066,1346,6099,938,6,191,179,211,962,468],"class_list":{"0":"post-150264","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston-rockets","8":"tag-amen-thompson","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-cam-whitmore","11":"tag-cleveland-cavaliers","12":"tag-dorian-finney-smith","13":"tag-houston","14":"tag-houston-rockets","15":"tag-houstonrockets","16":"tag-jabari-smith","17":"tag-kelly-iko","18":"tag-kevin-durant","19":"tag-nba","20":"tag-new-york-knicks","21":"tag-oklahoma-city-thunder","22":"tag-rockets","23":"tag-steven-adams","24":"tag-washington-wizards"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114803733126734818","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150264","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=150264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}