Already, the Houston Rockets have made the biggest move of the 2025 offseason, trading Dillon Brooks, Jalen Green, and draft picks to the Phoenix Suns for Kevin Durant. With the first round of the draft now in the books, it is fair to expect the team to continue to make moves.
Adding Durant shows a sense of urgency and a desire to win in the 2025-26 season. How long Durant has left as a top scorer remains very much in question. Houston is going to continue to push its chips to the center of the table, and how the first round played out showed exactly why.
Teams in the Western Conference consistently shuffled around picks and reached for players in what was a weak class after the first handful of selections. With this in mind, there isn't one team that has been more impressive than the Houston Rockets in the first weeks of the offseason. Already adding one of the league's top targets and still having plenty of draft picks to go out and make another move. It would be surprising if the Rockets were done making splashy moves.
Houston Must Continue to Add to an Exciting Rockets' Core
The underwhelming round that teams had in Houston's conference should further embolden the franchise to go all in on the 2025-26 season. This is already the case in many ways after the addition of Kevin Durant. You aren't trading for the aging star in hopes of future contention. It is as obvious a win-now move as you can possibly make.
The Rockets have a number of potential options when looking at the team's cap space and tradeable assets. It isn't going to be difficult to remain active both in the trade and free agent markets. One clear area the team could look to improve in is adding another physical defender.
This is what defined last year's Houston team, and a piece of it has been lost with Brooks now in Phoenix. Adding another scoring option as well as a wing defender should be the focus as an impressive 2025 offseason continues.