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The Phoenix Suns have been underwhelmed by the trade offers they have received thus far for Kevin Durant as the 36-year-old future Hall of Famer has successfully limited the number of teams comfortably bidding for him. Durant has the Houston Rockets, San Antonio Spurs and Miami Heat as his preferred teams, while he has signaled a lack of interest in other potential destinations such as the Minnesota Timberwolves.

"His trade value is depressed because he's limiting his market," said Brian Windhorst on Friday's NBA Today. "He is effectively doing that. He made it very clear he wants to have agency on where he finishes his career. He is by doing that depressing the market and forcing himself to a certain spot. That has been very effective so far."

The Suns, who were looking to have completed a trade before the draft, could extend talks past June 25. 

Durant is on an $54.7 million expiring contract for the 2025-26 season. Durant will be eligible to sign a two-year contract extension on July 6 worth as much as $112 million, or he could sign a two-year extension worth up to $124 million if he waits six months.

Durant turns 37 in September but has remained an All-NBA caliber player as a highly efficient and versatile scorer. 

Via Brian Windhorst/ESPN

I guess someone can have that point of view.

I'm more of the camp that Suns are significantly over-valuing KD... A 38-yr old primadonna on a max contract? I'm sure everyone is beating down the door to get him.

tester551 wrote:I guess someone can have that point of view.

I'm more of the camp that Suns are significantly over-valuing KD... A 38-yr old primadonna on a max contract? I'm sure everyone is beating down the door to get him.

Both parties can be at fault, I haven't even heard any rumors that the Rockets Spurs or Heat even want him, but apparently those are the only three places he's interested in.

Windhorst, I respect you but you are a total mouthpiece for this.

Durant is not the difference maker he once was. He's showing his age, his defense has fallen off and he's on a 2026 expiring contract. Father Time depressed the trade market for KD, not KD's machinations.

Kevin, you'll always be good with me for your contributions as a Net, but your ego is getting the best of you here. You're gonna over play your hand and end up traded to a team not even on your radar, no one is scared that you'll bolt after a year. They don't WANT to extend you into your age-39 season, your expiring contract is a good thing in the eyes of most teams.

Trade him to Sacramento for a bag of chips. That will make Minny seem pretty nice.

Suns have some fault. He had no intentions of leaving until they were going to trade him out of nowhere at the trade deadline.

I know one thing for sure If I was the Heat/Spurs/Rockets I'd not give up a lot to get him unless I was sending out some useless salary.

Sad ending for someone of KD's caliber. He outplayed LeBron when he was with the Ws. If he didn't get jealous of Curry and wanted to prove he could be the man, by going the LeBron superteam collusion path, he could have won another one or two playing with Curry and been viewed more favorably. All he accomplished was proving Curry could win yet another one without him, and he couldn't do the same even with two more franchise players, aka the less successful LeBron.

Those comments weren’t actually from Brian Windhorst. They came from a burner account created by KD.

tester551 wrote:I guess someone can have that point of view.

I'm more of the camp that Suns are significantly over-valuing KD... A 38-yr old primadonna on a max contract? I'm sure everyone is beating down the door to get him.

i mean i understand you dont like him but cmon now.

he will be 37 starting next season, hes currently 36 and hes not a primadonna at all. its not like he wanted out and asked for a trade. everybody decided to break them 3 up.

besides all that he still puts up all nba stats has a lot of gravity and defends somewhat decently for his age. he is definitley still a net positive a lot of teams would want on their team. not for the asking price but you act like hes washed and done, which is foolish