Kevin Durant is hoping to hammer out a new contract extension with the Houston Rockets. How things are playing out with LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers could be getting in the way.
There is no question that the Houston Rockets value Kevin Durant. They have been linked to him many times in the past and won the sweepstakes to bring him onto the team this summer. Yet even in doing so, they did not give up any premium assets in the trade: they gave up Jalen Green, who was perhaps fourth or fifth in the pecking order of their young players, plus Dillon Brooks and the No.