Source: Kevin Durant Prefers Suns Trade Him To Spurs

The Phoenix Suns are widely expected to trade Kevin Durant this offseason and the future Hall of Famer has a preferred landing spot. 

A league source told Hoops Wire that Durant prefers the Suns trade him to the San Antonio Spurs. 

San Antonio has an incredibly bright future with All-Stars Victor Wembanyama and De’Aaron Fox leading the way. The franchise has the second overall pick in this year’s NBA Draft as well. 

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

Durant turns 37 in September. The small forward 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.

One of the greatest scorers in NBA history, Durant has career averages of 27.2 points, 7.0 rebounds and 4.4 assists with the Oklahoma City Thunder, Golden State Warriors, Brooklyn Nets and Suns. He won two championships and two Finals MVPs with the Warriors but hasn’t gotten back to the NBA Finals since leaving Golden State in 2019. 

Durant and the Spurs had mutual interest at the NBA trade deadline in February. KD played college basketball at Texas. 

According to Jake Fischer of Bleacher Report, the Suns trading Durant this offseason is a “foregone conclusion.”

“Everyone around the Kevin Durant situation, around Phoenix, are talking about a Kevin Durant trade as a foregone conclusion,” Fischer said. “That trading Kevin Durant was spoken about to various candidates in the Suns’ lengthy head coaching search process. That trading him was going to be basically a matter of fact and not a matter of if, but a matter of when.

“Right now, the sentiment from people I’m talking to around the NBA, rival teams, agents around the league, people are talking about Kevin Durant as far more of a one-year rental expiring contract. … Right now, most people I’m speaking to at this juncture of the offseason, again it’s still early, we’re three weeks out from the draft, it seems like most teams, most front office personnel that I’m speaking to are looking at Kevin Durant as more of a one-year rental trade acquisition and not someone that they would want to go pursue and extend long term.”