Mock Trade Sends Suns' Kevin Durant to Surprise West Team For Top-10 Pick, Veteran Guard

The Suns are expected to move on from both Durant and Beal this offseason to rebuild their roster around Booker.

Because of this, Durant now enters the offseason as one of the main trade targets for other contending team and he has already been linked to many, including the Houston Rockets, Miami Heat and Minnesota Timberwolves.

While those are just some of the teams Durant has been linked to, Bleacher Report’s Jonathan Wasserman recently released a mock trade that would send him to a surprise West team in the New Orleans Pelicans.

In the trade, Wasserman has Phoenix sending Durant to New Orleans in exchange for the seventh overall pick in the 2025 draft, C.J. McCollum, Kelly Olynyk, Jordan Hawkins, a top-three protected 2029 first-round pick and 2027 first-round pick swap via the Milwaukee Bucks.

This would be an interesting trade for New Orleans, especially after their terrible season that was riddled by injuries but with a new core of Dejounte Murray, Herbert Jones, Zion Williamson and Durant, they could be a contender next season.

For the Suns, they would upgrade their depth in this trade while also landing a top-10 pick in which they could use to take a center like Khaman Maluach out of Duke, who Wasserman originally had the Pelicans taking.

Despite this, the Pelicans may not be willing to give up this amount of assets for an aging Durant, especially after the season they are coming off of, and they may have no interest in Durant this offseason.