Warriors Among Teams Interested in Former Raptors Champion: Report
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Warriors Among Teams Interested in Former Raptors Champion: Report
Warriors Among Teams Interested in Former Raptors Champion: Report originally appeared on Athlon Sports. Golden State has yet to make any moves outside of the NBA draft where they selected Alex Toohey and Will Richard in the second round. The Warriors are still awaiting a decision by restricted free agent Jonathan Kuminga, which has caused them to miss out on multiple potential targets. The team has been linked to Boston Celtics champion Al Horford to bolster their frontcourt but if he decides to retire or sign elsewhere, they will have to find a different big man.
The Golden State Warriors entered the NBA offseason looking to upgrade their roster around their star trio of Stephen Curry, Jimmy Butler and Draymond Green to help chase another championship next season.
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Despite this, Golden State has yet to make any moves outside of the NBA draft where they selected Alex Toohey and Will Richard in the second round.
Those are the only two new additions to the Warriors’ roster thus far and they also lost Kevon Looney in free agency as he signed with the New Orleans Pelicans, further hurting Golden State’s frontcourt.
Golden State Warriors stars Steph Curry and Jonathan KumingaNeville E. Guard-Imagn Images
Of course, the Warriors are still awaiting a decision by restricted free agent Jonathan Kuminga, which has caused them to miss out on multiple potential targets, especially for their frontcourt.
Golden State has been linked to Boston Celtics champion Al Horford to bolster their frontcourt but if he decides to retire or sign elsewhere, they will have to find a different big man.
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One player who has recently been linked to the Warriors is former Toronto Raptors champion Chris Boucher.
According to Forbes’ Evan Sidery, the Warriors are among the team who have checked in on Boucher as he has generated interest from multiple contenders as a potential signing on a veteran’s minimum.
With the Warriors struggling with their frontcourt depth, Boucher would be a solid addition to the roster and it would also not be the first time he has been in Golden State.
Of course, Boucher began his NBA career with the Warriors, though he played only one game for them during his rookie season before heading to Toronto in 2018.
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Toronto Raptors forward Chris Boucher (25).© David Richard-Imagn Images
During his time with the Raptors, Boucher has proven to be a solid backup big man due to his outside shooting and rim protection, both of which the Warriors could use.
Despite this, Sidery mentioned many teams in his report that have shown interest in the 32-year-old big man, meaning he has multiple options on where he will continue his NBA career next season.
This story was originally reported by Athlon Sports on Jul 11, 2025, where it first appeared.
Ranking Lakers, Warriors Among Deandre Ayton Landing Spots After Contract Buyout
L.A. Lakers need a rim-runner to go with Luka Dončić. L.A.’s biggest need was at the 5. The Lakers had plenty of movable salary to combine and get to the $35.6 million he was set to make. The team has the potential to be operating under the luxury-tax threshold this offseason.
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Yes, the Los Angeles Lakers, regardless of where they are as a franchise or what resources they have to make a deal, always seem to find their way into exercises like this. It’s been that way for about as long as the internet has been around.
But you (non-Lakers fans) can relax. This one is not contrived.
From the moment the 2024-25 season ended in the first round, it was obvious L.A.’s biggest need was at the 5. It didn’t have a starting-caliber center, and a rim-runner has long been an important ingredient for Luka Dončić’s success as a pick-and-roll virtuoso.
Ayton even made some sense as a trade target. The Lakers had plenty of movable salary to combine and get to the $35.6 million he was set to make. Now, of course, they don’t have to.
L.A. has the potential to be operating under the luxury-tax threshold this offseason, which would allow it to offer Ayton the non-taxpayer’s mid-level exception of $14.1 million. Without much cap space available elsewhere around the league, that’s a number that could be enticing for the Arizona product, especially when he considers the basketball fit.
Kevin Durant trade appears imminent as suitors submit final offers to Suns: Report
The Miami Heat, Houston Rockets and Minnesota Timberwolves are reportedly interested in Kevin Durant. The Phoenix Suns star forward is on an expiring contract worth $54.7 million for the 2025-26 season. After he’s traded, on July 6, he’ll be eligible to sign a two-year extension worth up to $122 million. The 15-time NBA All-Star has previously played for the Seattle SuperSonics/Oklahoma City Thunder, the Warriors (2016-19) and the Brooklyn Nets (2019-23)
Charania reported Wednesday that the San Antonio Spurs and New York Knicks had also expressed interest in Durant. However, on Friday, Charania told McAfee and Co. that the focus of the Suns’ conversation in the last 24-48 hours has been on the Heat, Rockets and Timberwolves.
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Durant, who has spent two full seasons with the Suns, is on an expiring contract worth $54.7 million for the 2025-26 season. After he’s traded, on July 6, he’ll be eligible to sign a two-year extension worth up to $122 million. If Durant decides to wait six months after the trade, though, that extension could be worth as much as $124 million, per Charania.
While on with McAfee, Charania pointed out that there could be a team — either among the Heat, Rockets or Timberwolves, or a wild-card team — that bets on itself, regardless of whether there’s mutual long-term interest from Durant. Charania compared that potential scenario to the Toronto Raptors trading for Kawhi Leonard in the summer of 2018. The Raptors won an NBA championship in 2019, but Leonard still signed with the Los Angeles Clippers in free agency.
“Will there be a team,” Charania proposed, “that just takes a swing and just banks on themselves and hope that they can potentially make a deep run and keep him there?
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“But that’s going to be the big question.”
The Golden State Warriors almost acquired Durant at this season’s trade deadline. Instead, Durant established that he didn’t want a second act in the Bay Area and would rather stay with the Suns for the rest of the 2024-25 campaign.
Durant will turn 37 in September. The 15-time NBA All-Star has previously played for the Seattle SuperSonics/Oklahoma City Thunder (2007-16), the Warriors (2016-19) and the Brooklyn Nets (2019-23).
This season, he averaged 26.6 points, 6.0 rebounds and 4.2 assists per game in 62 appearances. The Suns, despite the highest payroll in league history, finished 36-46 and missed the playoffs for the first time since 2019-20.
Report: Kevin Durant trade talks percolating with Suns
The Houston Rockets, San Antonio Spurs, Miami Heat, Minnesota Timberwolves and New York Knicks have shown interest in Kevin Durant. The Suns are working with Durant to find a suitable trade partner, unlike its attempt to stealthily work out a trade with the Golden State Warriors months ago. Durant would be eligible to sign a two-year, $112 million extension starting July 6 if he’s on a new team by then. The number would increase to $124 million if he waited to sign the extension six months after being dealt.
The Houston Rockets, San Antonio Spurs, Miami Heat, Minnesota Timberwolves and New York Knicks have shown interest in Durant dating back to the February trade deadline, as previously reported by ESPN.
“Several wild-card suitors” have checked in with the Suns on Durant possibilities in the past 10 days, Charania added.
It’s expected that Phoenix will attempt to find a deal before the June 25 draft.’
The New York Post’s Stefan Bondy reported that the Knicks are not among the suitors in the Durant trade market.
Why would the Suns work with Kevin Durant on a potential trade?
Phoenix is working with Durant to find a suitable trade partner, unlike its attempt to stealthily work out a trade with the Golden State Warriors months ago.
In February, the Suns were close to lining up a Durant trade to Golden State, but he remained steadfast in wanting to finish the year with Phoenix.
He has one year and $54.7 million remaining on his current contract and this summer would be eligible to sign a two-year extension. The possibility of him signing an extension upon a trade will impact the return the Suns get in any deal.
In other words, Durant’s desire to sign an extension with his new team should help Phoenix, under first-year general manager Brian Gregory, recoup value for the 15-time All-Star.
Durant would be eligible to sign a two-year, $112 million extension starting July 6 if he’s on a new team by then. The number would increase to $124 million if he waited to sign the extension six months after being dealt.
Durant averaged 26.6 points, 6.0 rebounds and 4.2 assists per game in 2024-25 and will turn 37 before the start of the coming season.
The Suns went 36-46 this past season, missing the playoffs, and are now expected to reshuffle the roster around Devin Booker while getting under the second tax apron that limits their trade and financial flexibility.
Dealing Durant is the easiest path to check all of those boxes for Gregory and the newly introduced head coach, Jordan Ott.
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NBA trade rumors: The latest on Giannis Antetokounmpo, Kevin Durant, Cooper Flagg pick
Giannis Antetokounmpo, Kevin Durant and more could join new teams this offseason. The Houston Rockets are reportedly interested in the Milwaukee Bucks star. The Phoenix Suns are reportedly lowering their asking price for Durant. The Dallas Mavericks are reportedly considering moving the Cooper Flagg pick. The Cleveland Cavaliers are expected to make a move for a young player or two in the summer, but it’s not clear if it will be Kyrie Irving or Luka Dončić at the top of the draft. The New York Knicks, Minnesota Timberwolves, Miami Heat and San Antonio Spurs have also been linked to the former MVP, as well as the Brooklyn Nets and Golden State Warriors. The Milwaukee Bucks have good reason to be looking to trade Antetkounmpa, who is “open-minded” about a possible new home, according to ESPN’s Shams Charania. The Toronto Raptors are reportedly looking for a new way forward after the slow break-up of their 2019 championship team, which beat the Bucks in the Eastern Conference finals.
Here are all the latest rumors, whispers and inklings going around the NBA right now, starting with the former MVP and his several suitors.
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Who’s going after Giannis Antetokounmpo?
It’s no secret the Milwaukee Bucks have good reason to trade Giannis Antetokounmpo this offseason. After years of contending and the first championship in 50 years, the team’s supporting cast behind Antetokounmpo has become a significant concern, from Damian Lillard’s torn Achilles to Kyle Kuzma’s existence.
So any team in need of an MVP-level, defensively dominant power forward is going to be on the phone, even if the price is likely to start with a young player or two and end with every first-round pick that isn’t nailed down. Antetokounmpo himself is going into the offseason “open-minded” about a possible new home, per ESPN’s Shams Charania.
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One of those teams is the Toronto Raptors, as the Toronto Star’s Doug Smith reports there is mutual interest in a deal there. That’s couched with the odds of a deal being “long,” but Toronto is looking for a new way forward after the slow break-up of their 2019 championship team, which beat Antetokounmpo and the Bucks in the Eastern Conference finals.
Giannis Antetkounmpo could be a popular man on the NBA trade market. (Photo by John Fisher/Getty Images) (John Fisher via Getty Images)
Another possibility is the Houston Rockets, whom The Athletic’s Kelly Iko reports are targeting Antetokounmpo. However, the team has reportedly experienced recent uncertainty over whether the Bucks will actually part with their star, to say nothing of the price he is likely to command.
The Brooklyn Nets could also get involved, per the New York Post, and then there’s the haunting idea of an Antetokounmpo-Stephen Curry team-up. We don’t know how seriously the Golden State Warriors are there, but you can’t ignore one of their players talking about the possibility on television.
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Suns reportedly lowering asking price for Kevin Durant
Kevin Durant’s Phoenix Suns were an expensive disaster this season, and all parties are reportedly ready to call it a day. We’ve known this for months.
Iko also reported the Suns have been “aggressive” in moving the 36-year-old, with the Rockets in communication there and Phoenix gradually lowering its asking price. Few teams would be a better fit for Durant than Houston, which features a core of young players, a proven coach in Ime Udoka and one of the best defenses in basketball last season.
In addition to the Rockets, Charania recently reported the New York Knicks, Minnesota Timberwolves, Miami Heat and San Antonio Spurs were all interested in Durant when he was being dangled at the trade deadline, and he expects them to be similarly interested this offseason. Stein also mentioned Minnesota to have “significant interest” in teaming Durant up with Anthony Edwards.
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Nothing on the Mavericks moving the Cooper Flagg pick yet
The Dallas Mavericks got the most unearned fortune of the offseason by winning the NBA Draft Lottery, but the question remains if they will A) stick with the pick and draft generational prospect Cooper Flagg or B) trade the pick for what would be one of the biggest hauls in the offseason.
Right now, there has been very little indication the team is considering Option B. Veteran reporter Marc Stein reported weeks ago there’s “no chance” Dallas moves off the Flagg pick and head coach Jason Kidd was talking Tuesday about focusing on Flagg, though with the caveat “we all understand that things change.”
Flagg represents a significant fork in the road, as the Mavericks quite loudly committed to an older core of Anthony Davis and Kyrie Irving when they traded away Luka Dončić at only 25 years old. Expecting Flagg to be instantly ready as a member of a championship Big 3 would be a heck of a bet, but this front office has shown itself to be nothing if not bold.
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Is the Cavaliers’ Core 4 really a Core 2?
The Cleveland Cavaliers won 64 games this season and looked like an emerging power in the East, right up until the Indiana Pacers ripped their hearts out. That begs the question: is this a team that should be just running it back?
The answer appears to be “Yes, unless they get a particularly good offer on a couple guys.” Cleveland.com’s Chris Fedor said on the “Wine and Gold Talk” podcast that while the Cavaliers consider stars Donovan Mitchell and Evan Mobley to be “untouchables,” he has gotten the sense that the team could consider deals for Jarrett Allen and Darius Garland.
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Detroit Pistons looking into Naz Reid, Myles Turner
The Detroit Pistons took a nice leap this season and want to take the next step with a big man who can help space the floor. Per Stein, they have an eye on both the Timberwolves’ Naz Reid and the Pacers’ Myles Turner.
Turner is a pending free agent and could be available, but he looked pretty happy after the Pacers’ Eastern Conference title and seems a decent bet to re-sign with Indiana, which certainly has cap space for him.
Reid, meanwhile, has a $15 million player option for next season that he is almost certain to opt out of. Minnesota had one of the highest payrolls in the NBA last offseason, so this would likely be the center to chase.