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While the Golden State Warriors, the team was perhaps most prominent in the mixture of the Phoenix Suns star Kevin Durant, another team made a late offer to him at the trade deadline.

Per. NBA Insider Chris HaynesMinnesota Timberwolves “did a last ditch effort” to act for Durant before Thursday’s deadline, but the deal was ultimately not realized.

It is unclear which package of Timberwolves offered Suns to Durant, but it is fair to assume they would not have included young star Anthony Edwards. Minnesota has a handful of draft choices and some pieces on its list available, but no matter what Wolves offered Suns was not enough.

Phoenix seemed ready to make a splash at the deadline by either acting Durant or landing a star like Jimmy Butler, but it ended up being a relatively quiet day. The only movement that Suns made on Thursday was one part It sent Jusuf Nurkić and a first round in 2026 to Charlotte Hornets in return for Cody Martin, Vasilije Micić and a 2026 second round.

Timberwolves had an even quieter deadline without trades.

Durant received plenty of attention at this year’s deadline. Warriors pursued their former star, but he was allegedly “cold to the idea” of returning to Golden State, per. Athletic’s Anthony Slater and Sam Amick.

Espns Shams Charania reported on NBA today Thursday that after Warriors’ persecution of Durant ended, other teams began to “make really aggressive calls to Suns” about Durant.

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Such a team was Dallas Mavericks, which Gamly Ian Begley reported was “very aggressive” in an attempt to find a trade for Durant.

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“I was told that Mavericks were very aggressive, as late as Wednesday, tried to find other teams to get involved so they could make the math work and bring Kevin Durant to Dallas. Obviously there’s no coming something to perform there. ” And @Ianbegley
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In the end, Durant stays in Phoenix for now, and Suns will try to turn things around after a tough start to the year. Phoenix is ​​currently in 10th place in the western conference of 25-25. Timberwolves have not done much better and sat in seventh place in the west at 28-23.

Both teams will try to exceed and get back stronger in the second half of the season despite a lack of significant features of this year’s trading deadline.