KD+Ant-Man Combination Comes to Reality! Phoenix Durant Trade Pursues! Minnesota's Strongest Recruitment Candidate
Apr 16, 2025
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This season, the Phoenix Suns are painful. It ranks first in salary cap among the 30 clubs.
It spent a whopping $220.7 million. Second place is Minnesota. It is $24.78 million. It's overwhelmingly No. 1.
However, they failed to advance to the playoffs. He didn't even make it to the play-in tournament.
He is at a crossroads of advance and retreat. It is a decision on whether to precisely substitute for Phoenix's position and revamp around Devin Booker or take Kevin Durant and Booker's system as it is.
There is a high possibility that it will be the former. The key is Kevin Durant's trade.
ESPN said on the 16th (Korea time) 'It's time to trade Durant. Phoenix played much better when Durant, who averaged 26.6 points, 6.0 rebounds and 4.2 assists in 62 games this season, was in the lineup. It was a clear fact that 'he went 3-17 in games he didn't play in. They went 33-29 when Durant was there, except they finished 11th in the West this season.
The problem is Phoenix's salary cap. No. 1 in the league. The media outlet said that Phoenix's roster adjustment was inevitable as the sky-high payroll entered the second clause of the NBA's penalty.
You must also change the failed roster. The best option is to trade Durant.
Durant is the highest paid member of the team. It will receive about $51.8 million this season. In second place is Bradley Beal (about $50 million), not Ace Booker (about $49.2 million).
With Bill's ill-advised recruitment, Phoenix's salary cap policy is perfectly in crisis. However, Bill has a trade rejection clause. In other words, it is not easy to dispose of. The trade is really not easy because the value is low. We need to get Bill's consent as well.
Durant will receive about $54.7 million next season. And it's FA. In other words, Durant's trade time is this summer.
Durant is still Earth 1 option. The value hasn't dropped.
ESPN said there is a strong interest in Durant, including the Minnesota Timberwolves, Miami Heat, New York Knicks, Houston Rockets and San Antonio Spurs.
This means that the team that needs Win Now still wants Durant. In reality, Phoenix is the key basis for the most realistic alternative to tweaking its failed roster this season.
The team that wants Durant the most is Minnesota.
Minnesota competed with Dallas at the top of the West last season, giving up Cal Anthony Towns and overhauling its roster for the championship by bringing in Julius Randle. He made it to the playoffs this season, but he's not a champion.
In other words, Minnesota can use Durant for a short period of time to win. With Anthony Edwards still strong, bringing Durant in, Minnesota could be reborn as one of the West's strongest teams that could threaten Oklahoma City.
New York Knicks and Houston Rockets.
The price of Phoenix's Durant trade is also important. The outlet said it was looking for terms of trade in the form of a package that included an all-star player or a new player with high potential, and a first-round pick.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
