Ben Dubose: Let’s address the elephant in the room with Kevin Durant. They expect the Suns to reach out to them for the obvious reason they have the picks and on paper there’s a fit, but it’s doubtful. No one will rule it out, but it’s doubtful that the value will be in alignment in terms of what the Suns are looking for, what makes sense for them, and what the Rockets are willing to give up, both in terms of younger players or pick assets and also the matching salaries to get anywhere near KD’s 50-something million dollar salary for next year. They’ll kick the tires. they’ll do their due diligence but they really believe in this core and the timeline that they’re on. Obviously KD is going to be 37 next year and so that sort of goes in the same bucket in that sure, it sounds good on paper, they’ll do their due diligence, if the price is low enough, maybe you can’t rule it out. But they’re not going to bid aggressively when the floor is as high as it already is.
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