With the NBA trade deadline fast approaching on Thursday at 3 p.m. ET, the Phoenix Suns are seriously entertaining trade offers for Kevin Durant, and it’s possible he could reunite with Steph Curry in Golden State, according to ESPN’s Brian Windhorst.
“Durant has one year on his contract, so they have now begun entertaining, should we trade Kevin Durant?” Windhorst said Wednesday on “Get Up.” “And they have begun those discussions across the league.”
Durant, 36, is making $51 million this season and is due to make close to $55 million in the 2025-26 season. He is currently No. 8 on the NBA’s all-time scoring list.
Durant, of course, won NBA titles alongside Curry, Klay Thompson and Draymond Green with the Warriors in 2017 and ‘18 and was named MVP of the Finals both years. He then left to sign with the Brooklyn Nets in free agency in 2019 before that experiment failed miserably and he ended up in Phoenix.
Windhorst says Golden State is looking for a star to pair with Curry to make one more run at title.
“Now we have the Warriors and Suns discussing the possibility of bringing Kevin Durant back,” he said. “Okay, I am not going to sit here and even begin to project or guess as to how this may go down. Is it possible that Kevin Durant could be trained to the Warriors? Yes. Will it happen? I’m not afraid to say I don’t know.
“This is potentially a 3,4,5-team transaction. It could involve, like a dozen other players, because that’s the nature of the way NBA trades.”
Windhorst added that Durant and Jimmy Butler, who has let it be known he wants to play in Phoenix, could be traded for one another in a complicated trade.
”It is possible that the Suns can acquire Jimmy Butler, but not for Brad Beal, but for Kevin Durant, and so...after a month of trying to pair them together,” he said, “they could end up, in an elaborate way, being traded for each other.”
Amid all the speculation, Durant was at Suns shootaround on Wednesday.
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Adam Zagoria is a freelance reporter and Basketball Insider for NJ Advance Media. You may follow him on Twitter @AdamZagoria and check out his Website at ZAGSBLOG.com.