{"id":159745,"date":"2025-09-21T18:08:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T18:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/159745\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T18:08:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T18:08:09","slug":"kevin-durant-blocked-trade-offer-relationship-gets-worse-with-warriors-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/159745\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Durant blocked trade offer, relationship gets worse with Warriors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/nba\/golden-state-warriors\/news\/kevin-durant-block-trade-offer-relationship-worse-warriors\/a663ed57d5ef0febc754e013?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=appeared_on\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Kevin Durant blocked trade offer, relationship gets worse with Warriors;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Kevin Durant blocked trade offer, relationship gets worse with Warriors<\/a> originally appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=appeared_on\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:The Sporting News;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">The Sporting News<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A lot of drama took place between the Phoenix Suns and Kevin Durant after failing season after season to get back to being a championship-contending team. Something that the Suns haven&#8217;t been able to do since their Finals run in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Phoenix decided that the Durant era in Phoenix was ready to come to an end, and the 15-time All-Star was sent to the Houston Rockets in a record-breaking trade.<\/p>\n<p>This news has had some months to marinate in the league, and more information on the blockbuster trade has come out. It involves one of Durant&#8217;s former teams.<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Durant stopped trade that sent him back to the Warriors, insider says<\/p>\n<p>While being a guest on the Game Plan Sports Business Summit, Kevin Durant reflected on his fallout with the Phoenix Suns.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Initially, I was a little upset because I felt like we built a solid relationship, me and the Phoenix Suns, and to hear that from a different party was kind of upsetting, but that&#8217;s just the name of the game. So I got over that quickly and was trying to figure out what the next steps were,&#8221; Durant said, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/basketball.realgm.com\/wiretap\/281977\/Kevin-Durant-Talks-Trade-From-Suns-Confirms-Block-Of-Trade-To-Warriors\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:RealGM.com;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">RealGM.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Durant also mentioned that he decided to veto a trade that would have sent him back to the team he won both of his NBA championships, as well as two Finals MVPs, the Golden State Warriors.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I heard Golden State was in the mix around the trade deadline, but that&#8217;s when (Durant&#8217;s business partner and manager) Rich (Kleiman) came into play, and those relationships that we built around the league and also playing in Golden State helped,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/basketball.realgm.com\/wiretap\/281977\/Kevin-Durant-Talks-Trade-From-Suns-Confirms-Block-Of-Trade-To-Warriors\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Durant;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Durant<\/a> said. &#8220;We were able to tell them to kind of hold off on that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>After the relationship with the Suns fell apart, Houston crept in on the superstar forward. Adding him to a Rockets lineup that will include him, Alperen Sengun, Fred VanVleet, Amen Thompson, and more.<\/p>\n<p>MORE NBA NEWS:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kevin Durant blocked trade offer, relationship gets worse with Warriors originally appeared on The Sporting News A lot&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159746,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[44390,35035,83287,49,48,83288,8223,6695,459,6002,82,47621],"class_list":{"0":"post-159745","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-alperen-sengun","9":"tag-amen-thompson","10":"tag-blockbuster-trade","11":"tag-ca","12":"tag-canada","13":"tag-fred-vanvleet","14":"tag-houston-rockets","15":"tag-kevin-durant","16":"tag-nba","17":"tag-phoenix-suns","18":"tag-sports","19":"tag-warriors"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}