{"id":76020,"date":"2025-07-04T08:07:24","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T08:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=76020"},"modified":"2025-07-04T08:08:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T08:08:17","slug":"warriors-agree-to-history-making-trade-involving-former-league-mvp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=76020","title":{"rendered":"Warriors Agree to History-Making Trade Involving Former League MVP"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-featured-container-id\">\n<div id=\"post-featured\">\n<div>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2211840679-e1751587523442.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 820px) 95vw, 780px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2211840679-e1751587523442.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780 780w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2211840679-e1751587523442.jpg?quality=15&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1100 1100w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2211840679-e1751587523442.jpg?quality=35&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1350 1350w\" alt=\"Warriors Agree to History-Making Trade Involving Former League MVP\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Getty<\/p>\n<p>Golden State Warriors head coach Steve Kerr reacts in the first half against the Houston Rockets in Game 2 of the Western Conference First Round NBA Playoffs.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Golden State Warriors have agreed to a history-making trade, and it breaks their own record.<\/p>\n<p>The Warriors will come away with Alex Toohey, the No. 52 overall pick of the 2025 draft, in a deal that still has several moving parts and, according to NBA insider Jake Fischer on X on July 3, has still only been \u201cfully agreed to in principle.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This deal is on hold until July 6. That is when the league\u2019s moratorium on new business ends. Still, here are the presumed details so far based on what has been reported:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hawks get:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Nickeil Alexander-Walker (via sign-&amp;-trade w\/ MIN)<\/li>\n<li>2031 second-round pick (via HOU)<\/li>\n<li>Cash considerations (via HOU)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Lakers get:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>No. 36 pick (Adou Thiero, via BKN, MIN, &amp; PHO)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Nets get:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Future second-round picks (x2)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Rockets get:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Clint Capela<\/li>\n<li>Dorian Finney-Smith<\/li>\n<li>Kevin Durant<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Suns get:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dillon Brooks<\/li>\n<li>Jalen Green<\/li>\n<li>No. 10 pick (Khaman Maluach, via HOU)<\/li>\n<li>No. 31 pick (Rasheer Fleming via MIN)<\/li>\n<li>No. 41 pick (Koby Brea, via GSW)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Timberwolves get:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>No. 45 pick (Rocco Zikarsky, via CHI &amp; LAL)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Warriors get:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>No. 52 pick (Alex Toohey via PHO)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This trade began long before the Warriors got involved.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Potential Historic Trade Started on Draft Night<\/h2>\n<div id=\"attachment_5410133\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2204819640-e1751587453645.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780\" alt=\"Warriors Agree to History-Making Trade Involving Former League MVP\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5410133\" data-lazy-load=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-5410133\">GettyKevin Durant #35 of the Phoenix Suns drives against Dillon Brooks #9 of the Houston Rockets.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Athletic\u2019s Fred Katz first broke the news that the Rockets and Suns first began exploring ways to expand their trade, which centered around the 2013-14 MVP, Durant.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo trade is imminent, and details are being ironed out as of Wednesday night,\u201d Katz wrote on July 2. \u201cIn a would-be seven-team trade, there is an unprecedented amount of detail. Unfortunately, while a seven-team trade would make for a thrilling topic at a cocktail party, there haven\u2019t been many unexpected developments in these negotiations. At least in the iterations of the deal discussed so far, most of the recognizable names are from trades that have already been agreed to and reported but not yet finalized.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to Fischer, the Hawks\u2019 sending Capela to Houston was the final piece, albeit so far.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo my understanding, this was already a six-team trade as of the second round of the NBA draft,\u201d Fischer said during a live stream on July 3. \u201cThis is a league record, and it is kind of a whole puzzle that, I believe, started to be worked through by the cap wizards in the Phoenix Suns\u2019 front office.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat this really was was a bunch of second-round pick deals getting just hodge-podged and jumbled together, snowballed together in order to help everyone figure out tax ramifications, and avoid apron penalties, and all that stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"9d2fe9d545785330bb1845e00d499efd\">\n<div>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>Golden State Warriors cap and apron situation with Quinten Post and Gui Santos opted in.<\/p>\n<p>Situation is fluid. They could use some MLE under the first apron.<\/p>\n<p>They have more flexibility to utilize Jonathan Kuminga in a sign and trade to bring more players under the second apron.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Warriors are very familiar with landmark trade agreements.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Warriors Break Own Record With\u00a0 7-Team Trade<\/h2>\n<div id=\"attachment_5410131\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2199294509-e1751587367844.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780\" alt=\"Warriors Agree to History-Making Trade Involving Former League MVP\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5410131\" data-lazy-load=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-5410131\">GettyKlay Thompson #31 of the Dallas Mavericks reacts after scoring against the Golden State Warriors.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Warriors\u2019 six-team trade sending Klay Thompson to the Dallas Mavericks in 2024 is the previous record-holder. That deal also landed Buddy Hield and Kyle Anderson, the latter of whom the Warriors traded to the Miami Heat for Jimmy Butler, in Golden State.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, this new landmark deal could easily be subject to further expansion to include the Chicago Bulls and Memphis Grizzlies.<\/p>\n<p>The Grizzlies received the No. 59 pick the Warriors got from the Suns in a deal that sent Will Richard (No. 56 overall) to Golden State and Jahmai Mashack, the final pick of the 2025 draft, to Memphis. The Bulls received Lachlan Olbrich in a deal with the Lakers.<\/p>\n<div id=\"5024f585ff8010ebd2495318819b53b6\">\n<div>\n<article>The moment Alex Toohey &amp; Will Richard became members of #DubNation<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>However, those deals are not final, potentially leaving them open to join the Warriors\u2019 trade.<\/p>\n<p>Josh Buckhalter covers the NBA and NFL for Heavy.com. He has covered both leagues since 2016, including bylines at FanSided, Last Word on Sports and Clocker Sports. He&#8217;s based in Villa Park, Illinois. Follow Josh on Twitter and Instagram: @JoshGBuck More about Josh Buckhalter<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Golden State Warriors made NBA history just last year with a record-setting trade, and they are on the verge of going further.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":76026,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Warriors Agree to History-Making Trade Involving Former League MVP - News 365<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=76020\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Warriors Agree to History-Making Trade Involving Former League MVP - 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