Report: Clippers ‘Team To Monitor’ For Suns’ Kevin Durant

According to Brian Windhorst and Tim Bontemps of ESPN, the Los Angeles Clippers are a “team to monitor” for Phoenix Suns forward Kevin Durant. 

The Suns will trade Durant before the 2025 NBA Draft. 

Durant played with James Harden on the Oklahoma City Thunder and Brooklyn Nets. 

“One additional team to monitor, sources said, is the Clippers, who have the contracts to make another move to augment the roster around Kawhi Leonard and Harden, presuming the latter either opts into his contract or signs a new deal this offseason,” Windhorst and Bontemps wrote. 

Durant, 36, has one year left on his contract. The superstar small forward will make $54.7 million next season. 

A future Hall of Famer, Durant turns 37 in September. The four-time scoring champion averaged 26.6 points, 6.0 rebounds and 4.2 assists for the Suns this season while shooting 52.7% from the field, 43.0% from beyond the arc and 83.9% from the free-throw line.

Durant has career averages of 27.2 points, 7.0 rebounds and 4.4 assists with the Thunder, Golden State Warriors, Nets and Suns. He was named to the NBA’s 75th Anniversary Team in 2022. 

Durant won two rings and two Finals MVPs (2017, 2018) with the Warriors. However, he hasn’t gotten back to the NBA Finals since leaving Golden State in 2019.

Durant has also been swept in the first round of the postseason twice since departing the Warriors. 

A league source told Hoops Wire that Durant prefers the Suns trade him to the San Antonio Spurs so he can play with All-Stars Victor Wembanyama and De’Aaron Fox. 

According to Shams Charania of ESPN, the Suns are talking to the Houston Rockets, Spurs, Minnesota Timberwolves, Miami Heat and New York Knicks about a Durant trade. 

Durant doesn’t have a no-trade clause in his contract, but he and his camp are working with the Suns on a trade so he can land somewhere he wants to be.