Is the Houston Rockets’ strategy really to try to trade for Kevin Durant ? Their recent track record seems to suggest the exact opposite. In fact, they appear to have a theory that betting against (shorting) Kevin Durant, is a strategy that pays big dividends. It seems like an odd thing to think about a player who is universally recognized as a generational talent and an all-time great .
A guy who is, by many, considered to be the best pure isolation scorer the NBA has ever seen. But here we are again, the Rockets are looking to capitalize on their theory that having Kevin Durant on your team isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. The Houston Rockets’ Strategy: Keep Betting Against Kevin Durant Ahead of the draft, Houston sent two of their Brooklyn Nets picks back to Brooklyn in exchange for four Phoenix Suns picks/swaps instead.
How did Houston acquire those Brooklyn picks in the first place? By trading the second-best player in franchise history . Notably when it came to trading that player, they prioritized a package of picks over something built around an accomplished young player such as Ben Simmons . For the sake of this argument, let’s assume Houston didn’t simply have a crystal ball and see the grim basketball future awaiting the former All-NBA “guard”.
Even more notably, picks from a team that had Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving , and now also James Harden . It is true that the Rockets had just experienced Harden’s flightiness firsthand, and he was indeed t.
