NBA – After the Kevin Durant trade, the strange revelation about Harden, Westbrook and him!

Par Joël Pütz | Journaliste sportif

Traded by the Suns, Kevin Durant will now suit up for Houston. A career choice that further connects him to his former teammates, Russell Westbrook and James Harden… but for fans, this is a bad thing.

It’s done, the Rockets have their new superstar. Kevin Durant will wear the Texans jersey next season after being acquired in exchange for Dillon Brooks, Jalen Green, the No. 10 pick in this draft, and five second-round picks. The trade is substantial, but so are the franchise’s ambitions, and after being eliminated in the first round of the playoffs, it wanted to take a step forward.

Two and a half years after launching his adventure in Arizona, the Slim Reaper is moving to another team as he will turn 37 shortly before the start of the 2025-26 season. As he did in Phoenix, the goal will be to win the title, bringing his experience and scoring to a team as young as it is talented. In the process, he’s unwittingly continuing a tradition of Oklahoma City players…

KD, Harden and Westbrook all linked to Houston

As one user on X noted after his trade was announced, KD joins former teammates Russell Westbrook and James Harden as Thunder stars to have moved to H-Town during their careers. A funny coincidence:

@BTCBabyBulls : All 3 have now been traded to the Houston Rockets

Thirteen years after James Harden and six years after Westbrook, Durant is the third member of OKC’s former Big Three to join Houston. It’s worth noting that the first two players played there at the same time, during the 2019-20 season… before The Beard was traded to KD’s Nets a few months later. In a way, the three men were never apart after the Harden trade in 2012.

That being said, and even if it’s a funny observation, fans don’t really see any reason to be optimistic. Because while Harden was MVP with the Rockets, he never led them to a championship ring. Brodie’s time was a failure, and as for the forward, he’s coming off two fiascos in Brooklyn and the Suns. We hope for him that his legacy in Texas will be more glorious, but in the meantime, pessimism is the order of the day:

@TheHurricaneBen: And none of them will win a title.

@jay17v: Why are people acting like this trio can still win?

@mrseshington: crazy rockets still not winning a ring lol