Rockets’ Championship Odds Surge After Trading for Kevin Durant – See Updated 2026 NBA Title Odds for All 30 Teams
By Sascha Paruk in NBA Basketball
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- The Houston Rockets have acquired Kevin Durant from the Phoenix Suns
- Houston sent for Jalen Green and Dillon Brooks and several draft picks back to Phoenix
- See the updated NBA Championship odds for the Rockets and all the other teams in the league
The Houston Rockets pulled off the latest blockbuster trade in the NBA on Sunday, acquiring Kevin Durant from the Phoenix Suns in exchange for Jalen Green, Dillon Brooks, the #10 pick in the 2025 draft, and five second-round picks. The deal was a needle-mover for Houston, which bowed out in the first round of the playoffs this season despite being the #2 seed in the West.
The table below juxtaposes the current NBA title odds at DraftKings with the odds from prior to the Durant trade.
NBA Championship Odds 2026
The Rockets made a big jump from +1200 (7.69% implied win probability) to +750 (11.76%), which moved them from sixth-favorite all the way to second-favorite, trailing only the OKC Thunder.
Durant will be 37 years old by the time the 2025-26 season tips off and has averaged just 54.8 games per season over the last five years. He remains one of the game’s most-prolific scorers, though, averaging at least 26.6 PPG in each of those five seasons.
Durant’s teams have missed the playoffs only three times since 2010 (2015, the COVID-altered 2019-20, and this past season).
Houston’s Gain Is Miami, San Antonio’s Loss
According to oddsmakers, the big losers on Sunday were the Miami Heat and San Antonio Spurs, who were the other two teams in the running to acquire Durant from Phoenix. But one faded significantly farther than the other.
Miami, considered the favorite by many in the Durant sweepstakes, went all the way from +5000 (1.96% implied win probability) to +15000 (0.66%). The Spurs went from +1600 (5.88%) to +1800 (5.26%).
Phoenix was always a longshot to retrain Durant, so their 2026 NBA title odds stayed at +17000 after news of the trade broke.
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Sascha has been working in the sports-betting industry since 2014, and quickly paired his strong writing skills with a burgeoning knowledge of probability and statistics. He holds an undergraduate degree in linguistics and a Juris Doctor from the University of British Columbia.
