Kevin Durant still has two more seasons left on his current deal with OKC, but other teams are already lining up to make a run at him.
One such team is the Rockets, who struck out this past summer. Per reports, Houston will use Durant’s former teammate, James Harden, as bait to get Durant to Texas. Good luck with that.
The Rockets are widely expected to take a step back this season, thanks to all the depth they squandered on the Bosh dice roll, but they expect to have significant salary-cap room next summer — when they can chase point guards as accomplished as Goran Dragic and Rajon Rondo if they choose — as well as in the summer of 2016.
Which is when, sources say, they’d like to give Harden an opportunity to serve as Houston’s lead recruiter in the pursuit of a free agent named Kevin Wayne Durant. …
“We are always going to be swinging big,” [Rockets GM Daryl Morey] said. “We’re only about trying to win championships and how to make that happen. We take big swings at things. Obviously, it worked out the last two summers, but the only way you can land a James Harden or a Dwight Howard is by taking big swings. Sometimes, you hit. Sometimes, you miss. Bosh chose to stay in Miami, but that’s not always going to be the case.”
H/T: ESPN
