{"id":101485,"date":"2026-01-06T05:16:39","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T09:16:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/durant-gets-revenge-game-winning-basket-against-suns-after-being-traded\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T05:16:39","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T09:16:39","slug":"durant-gets-revenge-game-winning-basket-against-suns-after-being-traded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nba\/durant-gets-revenge-game-winning-basket-against-suns-after-being-traded\/","title":{"rendered":"Durant Gets Revenge: Game-Winning Basket Against Suns, After &#8220;Being Traded&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"The Rockets star, Kevin Durant, expressed that scoring the winning shot on Monday night against the Suns had a special meaning, as he was facing his former team.\n\nDurant, who scored 26 points, made a three-pointer with 1.1 seconds left on the clock, securing the Rockets&#8217; victory with a score of 100-97.\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Definitely, a place I didn&#8217;t want to leave. For the first time, I don&#8217;t want to sound too dramatic, but I will, that they kicked me out of a place.<\/p><cite>Kevin Durant<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nThe game was tied when Durant made the long-distance shot that gave the Rockets the victory. This summer, Durant joined the Rockets from the Suns, in a move that involved Dillon Brooks and Jalen Green.\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>It feels good to play against a team that kicked you out of the building and made you the scapegoat for all their problems. And it hurt because I put all my effort, love, and care into the Suns and the Phoenix and Arizona area in general. But that&#8217;s the business, that&#8217;s the name of the game. So when you play against a former team, yes, you have a grudge.<\/p><cite>Kevin Durant<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nDurant, 37 years old, spent two and a half seasons with the Suns after being traded from the Nets in February 2023. He was an All-Star in his two full seasons in Phoenix, but the team did not meet expectations, losing in the first round of the postseason in the 2023-24 season and failing to reach the playoffs last season.\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a2.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2026%2F0106%2Fr1597161_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><figcaption>Alex Slitz\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>It&#8217;s nothing more than love for the players, but I want to beat that team. I want to show them that I still have some juice in the tank. Even though I&#8217;m old, I can still play. I feel like all players have that mentality when playing against their former team. I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s malicious in any way towards them. But as a competitor, you want to go out there and beat them.<\/p><cite>Kevin Durant<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nDurant hopes these feelings don&#8217;t last long.\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>By the time I get home tonight, I probably won&#8217;t even remember it. Well, I&#8217;ll remember it, but I&#8217;ll do my best to forget it and move on to the next one.<\/p><cite>Kevin Durant<\/cite><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rockets star, Kevin Durant, expressed that scoring the winning shot on Monday night against the Suns had a special meaning, as he was facing his former team. Durant, who scored 26 points, made a three-pointer with 1.1 seconds left on the clock, securing the Rockets&#8217; victory with a score of 100-97. Definitely, a place [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":101486,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[1041,583,4336,216],"class_list":{"0":"post-101485","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-kevin-durant","9":"tag-rockets","10":"tag-suns","11":"tag-victory"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}