Kevin Durant trade rumors: Ranking all 29 teams as possible destinations for the former MVP

June 24, 2022 World Sports

The trade market for superstars tends to be fairly small. They often use their status and contracts to exert an enormous amount of control over their destinations, and most of the time, they’ve settled on one or two preferred homes before negotiations even begin. A true bidding war through the entire NBA for a single star is exceedingly rarer. Even rarer is the sort of star who could genuinely fit onto any team.

But that’s what Kevin Durant is. On the court, he was malleable enough to join a 73-win team without missing a beat. Need him to run your offense for lengthy stretches? He can do that. Want him to be your late-game isolation killer? Right up his alley as well. If you just want him to run around screens and take 3s? You bet he can do that. Realistically, he’s going to be doing a combination of the three, scaling up or down in each area depending on who he’s playing with. If you can’t fit Kevin Durant into your offense, it’s your fault, not his.