{"id":71250,"date":"2025-06-02T04:00:14","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T04:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/71250\/"},"modified":"2025-06-02T04:00:14","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T04:00:14","slug":"timberwolves-kevin-durant-decision-shows-urgency-to-land-suns-superstar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/71250\/","title":{"rendered":"Timberwolves’ Kevin Durant Decision Shows Urgency to Land Suns Superstar"},"content":{"rendered":"

Timberwolves’ Kevin Durant Decision Shows Urgency to Land Suns Superstar<\/a> originally appeared on Athlon Sports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Phoenix Suns will have many decisions to make in the offseason. A few big ones have already been made, as the Suns fired head coach Mike Budenholzer following an abysmal 36-46 season.<\/p>\n

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Another key move was the Suns’ installation of Brian Gregory as the new general manager, with James Jones moving into a senior advisory position. With the new general manager having a close relationship with owner Mat Ishbia, they geared up to make more crucial decisions this summer.<\/p>\n

\"Atlanta<\/p>\n

Atlanta Hawks guard Dyson Daniels dribbles while defended by Phoenix Suns forward Kevin Durant.Dale Zanine-Imagn Images<\/p>\n

Timberwolves’ Kevin Durant decision shows urgency<\/p>\n

At the February trade deadline, it was rumored that the Suns were looking to move Durant. According to The Stein Line’s Jake Fischer<\/a>, the Minnesota Timberwolves were very interested in making a deal happen.<\/p>\n

“League sources say Minnesota indeed made serious trade inquiries for Durant before the Feb. 6 trade deadline, contacting at least one Eastern Conference club about functioning as a facilitator to help two luxury tax teams that had strayed beyond the second apron combine on a massive in-season maneuver,” wrote Fischer.<\/p>\n

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The Suns opted not to move the 15-time All-Star and attempted one more push to make one of the spots in the NBA Play-In Tournament. At first, it appeared that the Suns had a chance to do exactly that. But an ankle injury to Durant put those dreams to rest and they finished as the No. 11 seed in the Western Conference.<\/p>\n

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Minnesota Timberwolves guard Anthony Edwards (5) against Phoenix Suns forward Kevin Durant (35).Mark J&period; Rebilas-Imagn Images<\/p>\n

After the Timberwolves’ season came to an end in a 4-1 series loss to the Oklahoma City Thunder, they likely know they can’t just run it back with the same squad. Adding Durant to a team like the Timberwolves to play beside Anthony Edwards, considering the two already have a friendship, could make them lethal to deal with next season.<\/p>\n

According to DraftKings Sportsbook, the Timberwolves are slight favorites over the Houston Rockets to land Durant if Phoenix decides to trade him<\/p>\n

This story was originally reported by Athlon Sports<\/a> on Jun 2, 2025, where it first appeared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Timberwolves’ Kevin Durant Decision Shows Urgency to Land Suns Superstar originally appeared on Athlon Sports. The Phoenix Suns…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51365,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3791],"tags":[375,208,7,206,194,3553,938,3224,3358,6,179,2065,472,4045,604,308,4908],"class_list":{"0":"post-71250","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix-suns","8":"tag-anthony-edwards","9":"tag-atlanta-hawks","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-dyson-daniels","12":"tag-houston-rockets","13":"tag-jake-fischer","14":"tag-kevin-durant","15":"tag-mat-ishbia","16":"tag-mike-budenholzer","17":"tag-nba","18":"tag-oklahoma-city-thunder","19":"tag-phoenix","20":"tag-phoenix-suns","21":"tag-phoenixsuns","22":"tag-suns","23":"tag-timberwolves","24":"tag-trade-deadline"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114611776832022925","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71250","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=71250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}