Kevin Durant Doesn’t Seem Worried About The Rockets After The Chris Paul Trade


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The Houston Rockets made the biggest move of the offseason to help close the gap on the Warriors on Wednesday by trading seven players and a first-round pick to the Clippers in exchange for point guard Chris Paul.

In pairing Paul with Harden, the Rockets have the best back-court combination in the league. Figuring out how to balance the ball-handling responsibilities between Harden and Paul will be Mike D’Antoni’s task for this offseason, but that is a welcome challenge for the Rockets.

The rest of the league will have to figure out how to handle going up against the dynamic duo that averaged a combined 47.2 points and 20.4 assists per game last season. The Paul-Harden combination will keep many opposing coaches and guards up at night, but the defending champs aren’t too concerned about the Rockets’ new back-court just yet, as evidenced by Kevin Durant laughing off a tweet about the Harden-Paul duo being unstoppable.

Durant’s return to Twitter after winning a title has been nothing short of spectacular, and he and the rest of the Warriors have good reason to not be concerned about Houston yet. Paul joining Harden will make the Rockets better, but without more trades, Houston will remain well behind the Warriors in talent.

Should Houston keep making moves, as it appears they are planning on doing, maybe they can construct a roster that can compete with Golden State. Adding Paul George, as they hope to do, would certainly be a big step in that direction, but until then, the Warriors will continue to laugh at the idea that anyone behind them has become anything close to “unstoppable.”

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