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Heat's Trade Offer to Suns for Kevin Durant in February Revealed

Originally posted on Athlon Sports | By Ashish Mathur | Last updated Jun 11, 2025 7:34 PM ET

The Miami Heat are interested in trading for Phoenix Suns superstar Kevin Durant again.

The Heat tried to trade for Durant at the February NBA trade deadline, but the Suns rejected Miami's offer for the future Hall of Famer.

Durant turns 37 in September. He has one year left on his contract.

KD will make $54.7 million next season and then become an unrestricted free agent in the summer of 2026 if he doesn't sign an extension with his new team.

New team, you say? Yes, that's correct. According to Shams Charania of ESPN, the Suns and Durant's business partner, Boardroom CEO Rich Kleiman, have met multiple times over the past week to get KD out of Phoenix.

It's unknown what the Heat will offer the Suns for Durant this time around, but in February, Miami offered Phoenix a package built around Jimmy Butler, who wound up getting traded to Durant's old team, the Golden State Warriors.

“That Heat offer, according to a source, included Jimmy Butler, Josh Richardson, a first-round pick and potentially another component,” Barry Jackson and Anthony Chiang of the Miami Herald wrote.

"Five Reasons Sports reported that Miami offered Nikola Jovic as that fourth component, but that was disputed publicly by a close Butler associate.”

Durant remains an elite player in the NBA. He averaged 26.6 points, 6.0 rebounds and 4.2 assists for Phoenix this season while shooting 52.7% from the field, 43.0% from beyond the arc and 83.9% from the free-throw line.

A top 75 player of all time, Durant has played for the Oklahoma City Thunder, Warriors, Brooklyn Nets and Suns. He has career averages of 27.2 points, 7.0 rebounds and 4.4 assists.

Durant won two titles and two Finals MVPs with the Warriors. He hasn’t reached the conference finals since leaving Golden State for Brooklyn in the offseason of 2019.

The Heat reached the NBA Finals twice (2020, 2023) in the Butler era, losing both times.

This article first appeared on Athlon Sports and was syndicated with permission.

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