{"id":179357,"date":"2025-09-30T06:09:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T06:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/179357\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T06:09:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T06:09:07","slug":"kevin-durant-lillard-headline-same-faces-new-places-photos-for-2025-26-nba-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/179357\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Durant, Lillard Headline &#8216;Same Faces, New Places&#8217; Photos for 2025-26 NBA Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">A number of high-profile NBA stars changed addresses this offseason, from Kevin Durant landing in Houston to Damian Lillard making his return to Portland and Chris Paul and Bradley Beal joining the Los Angeles Clippers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">House of Highlights compiled images of those players rocking their new digs as teams begin training camps this week:<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Durant&#8217;s trade to Houston was arguably the highest-profile move of the summer, pairing him with the Rockets&#8217; young core as the team looks to challenge the defending champion Oklahoma City Thunder in the Western Conference.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">While Fred VanVleet&#8217;s season-ending torn ACL has put a damper on those hopes somewhat, the Rockets still have one of the most talented rosters in the sport. Durant&#8217;s experience and three-level scoring has the opportunity to take the young Rockets to the next level.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A number of high-profile NBA stars changed addresses this offseason, from Kevin Durant landing in Houston to Damian&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":179358,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-179357","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}