{"id":164997,"date":"2025-07-12T06:28:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T06:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/164997\/"},"modified":"2025-07-12T06:28:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T06:28:11","slug":"they-have-been-trying-to-trade-me-houston-rockets-star-jalen-green-breaks-silence-on-surprising-phoenix-suns-trade-nba-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/164997\/","title":{"rendered":"“They have been trying to trade me” \u2013 Houston Rockets’ star Jalen Green breaks silence on surprising Phoenix Suns trade | NBA News"},"content":{"rendered":"

\""TheyJalen Green. Image via: Getty Images Houston Rockets\u2019 iconic player, Jalen Green, heard something from his team\u2019s General Manager. The message left him shattered but not surprised. Yes, that\u2019s correct, another trade. And this time, it\u2019s Jalen Green who has to be traded to the Phoenix Suns for the Rockets to acquire Kevin Durant. The trade doesn’t seem to have shaken the Rockets\u2019 star because somehow, he already knew what fate had written for him. He nonchalantly accepted it and said that all he ever wanted was to play basketball, no matter the team. Jalen Green has been playing for the Rockets since 2021. On July 6, 2025, he, alongside Dillon Brooks, was traded to the Phoenix Suns, thereby letting the Rockets acquire Suns\u2019 Kevin Durant. <\/p>\n

NBA star Jalen Green was not surprised but already aware of the trade<\/p>\n

Amidst the Summer League, while everybody was busy attending the game, a rumor was fluttering everywhere. Jalen Green had been notified earlier about this trade by the Houston Rockets\u2019 General Manager and later on by his agent. \u201cYeah, I had a feeling. They\u2019ve been trying to trade me since last year,\u201d Jalen Green told the Houston Chronicle. \u201cI\u2019m not tripping. It\u2019s for the better of the team. I know it\u2019s a business at the end of the day. I really can\u2019t handle how I feel. Whatever happens, happens. At the end of the day, I still got the opportunity to play basketball.\u201dJalen Green abruptly called the trade a \u201cBusiness\u201d. This is somewhat true because if it weren’t for money, they would not have traded their star player to another team. For so long, this NBA star has been playing for one and only one team, and that is the Houston Rockets. This trade meant a great deal for him, as now he has to adapt to the change in teams. Last week, Jalen Green had officially arrived in Phoenix, learning and getting acquainted with his new team and the new city.\u201cWe’re going to surprise a lot of people and make a lot of noise”, Jalen Green said after he was traded to the Phoenix Suns. Although there’s a spark of excitement in him now that he is freshly traded from his former team, the Rockets, he is equally hurt and shattered. \u201cIt hurts. Houston is home to me and forever will be home to me\u201d, Jalen Green said while he was being interviewed. Also read: Kevin Durant Targets 20 Year NBA Career Milestone After Historic Seven-Team Trade To Houston Rockets<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jalen Green. Image via: Getty Images Houston Rockets\u2019 iconic player, Jalen Green, heard something from his team\u2019s General…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":164998,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3794],"tags":[7,292,194,4066,861,30834,30833,7680,6,1783,472,211],"class_list":{"0":"post-164997","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston-rockets","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-houston","10":"tag-houston-rockets","11":"tag-houstonrockets","12":"tag-jalen-green","13":"tag-jalen-green-phoenix-suns","14":"tag-jalen-green-trade-news","15":"tag-kevin-durant-trade","16":"tag-nba","17":"tag-nba-trade-rumors","18":"tag-phoenix-suns","19":"tag-rockets"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114838851019610150","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164997","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=164997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}