Monday Best: One more burst of around-the-league trade talk, roster rumbles and more from the NBA grapevine before the 2025-26 season tips off
Yes, agreed, it's the Monday Night Best technically
Saturday:
Jake Fischer reported at this very address that a contract extension for Kevin Durant was regarded as "an inevitability" in Houston … but at a number lower than the two-year, $120 million maximum that Durant was eligible to receive.Sunday: The Rockets announced they had indeed signed Durant to the anticipated extension … which came in at $90 million over two years.
Mark it down as just one example of the sort of prepare-you-in-advance Intel constantly published by The Stein Line. There was lots of it in Jake's Sunday notebook (found and clickable right below this paragraph) and now we proceed to another fresh serving of reporting from me featuring some early trade rumbles, coaching carousel chatter and insight on pressing roster machinations:
