NBA Rumors: Kevin Durant Trade Eyed by Rockets After Landing Draft Picks from Nets | News, Scores, Highlights, Stats, and Rumors

The Nets got back their 2026 first-round pick, previously owed to the Rockets, as part of the deal.

The Rockets also acquired the right to swap their 2025 first-round pick, which currently belongs either to Houston or the Oklahoma City Thunder, for the Suns’ 2025 first-rounder, Wojnarowski reported.

The team gives up its right to swap for the Nets’ 2025 first-rounder as part of the deal.

Houston also earned the more favorable of the Suns’ and Mavericks’ first-round picks in 2029, as well as the right to swap its own first-round pick for the less favorable of the set, per Wojnarowski.

With the chance of controlling the Suns’ 2025, 2027 and 2029 picks, the Rockets have now acquired some of the draft capital that the Suns sent to Brooklyn as part of their trade for Durant in 2023.

However, Wojnarowski noted that Houston isn’t completely set on using these picks to trade for Durant, who has two seasons remaining on his deal with the Suns.

“As intrigued as the Rockets have been about Durant, they’re determined to use the Suns picks to be aggressive on deals elsewhere now,” Wojnarowski wrote.

The Rockets could still potentially use the picks to make a deal with the Suns, even if they don’t pursue Durant. Wojnarowski noted that Houston is “in prime position” to make a bid for Phoenix guard Devin Booker.

Durant is heading into his age-36 marketing campaign however stays a commerce goal after averaging 27.1 factors in 75 begins final season. The Suns might want to determine whether or not to capitalize on that worth or to run issues again with their core trio of Durant, Booker and Bradley Beal.