{"id":266987,"date":"2025-11-02T13:54:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T13:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/266987\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T13:54:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T13:54:12","slug":"a-trade-idea-that-could-realistically-save-the-kevin-durant-era-in-houston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/266987\/","title":{"rendered":"A Trade Idea That Could Realistically Save the Kevin Durant Era in Houston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">The Nets were the only franchise this summer using cap room to help other teams (at a price). The Memphis Grizzlies and Milwaukee Bucks went under to pay Jaren Jackson Jr. and Myles Turner, respectively. Brooklyn helped teams shed contracts (Terance Mann, Michael Porter Jr., Kobe Bufkin, and Highsmith) for profit, primarily in exchange for draft considerations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">The trend continues, with Highsmith flipped to the Rockets, helping Brooklyn open the necessary space to absorb VanVleet&#8217;s deal. The demand for the first-round pick via Houston stems from VanVleet&#8217;s second year, limiting Brooklyn&#8217;s cap room in 2026-27.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">The team can rely on VanVleet, once healthy, as a veteran mentor for the team&#8217;s point guard prospects like Egor Demin and Nolan Traor\u00e9, or the Nets can move him later to a playoff team looking for a leader. The priority is cashing out Brooklyn&#8217;s flexibility for the first-round pick.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Email Eric Pincus at\u00a0<a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" href=\"https:\/\/bleacherreport.com\/articles\/mailto:eric.pincus@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">eric.pincus@gmail.com<\/a>\u00a0and follow him on X\/Twitter\u00a0<a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/EricPincus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">@EricPincus<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Nets were the only franchise this summer using cap room to help other teams (at a price).&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266988,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-266987","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-nba","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}