Prepare to trade KD! Jake Fischer: Rockets management will execute Van Vreet s team options

On May 23, NBA reporter Jake Fischer reported that the Rockets management will implement Van Vleet's team options. Van Vreet's salary this season is $42.85 million, and the 2025-26 season is a team option worth $44.89 million. Such an operation means that the Rockets may use Van Vleet as part of their subsequent transactions rather than choosing to keep him on the team. Previously, Kurt Helin said in a report that the Rockets were willing to send Shin Kyung to the Bucks and get Bucks forward Antetokounmpo. Obviously, if the Rockets execute VanVleet's team option, they will send him to another team, and this team will most likely be the Suns.

According to salary expert Bobby Marks, the Rockets have three unprotected first-round picks in 25/27/29. In addition, the Rockets also have the Nets' first round swap rights for 27 years, but the Nets have the Suns' first round swap rights for 28 years. If the Suns want to reclaim most of their first round picks, sending Durant to the Rockets is the ideal result. The Suns can get VanVleet, the first round pick in 25/27/29, and the Nets' 27-year swap rights, and then send this swap rights to the Nets for their 28-year first round pick. In this way, the Suns will control their four first-round picks in the next five years.

It is worth mentioning that in another transaction, the Suns sent their first round of swap rights to the Wizards. At the same time, I exchanged my first round picks for 31 years into three first round picks for 25/27/29. Bobby Marks believes that the Suns can send one of the first round picks to the Wizards for the first round picks in 26 years. According to Rockets reporter Kelly Iko, the Suns management contacted the Rockets in the middle of this season, hoping to exchange Durant for his draft pick, and added Shepard, Smith and Brooks, but was rejected by the Rockets management.