Kevin Durant to Rockets part of complex 7-team trade
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This is The Athletic’s daily NBA newsletter. Sign up here to receive The Bounce directly in your inbox. On this date, in 2010, LeBron James announced on live television he was taking his talents to South Beach to join the Heat.
Even as the Houston Rockets were playing their way to the No. 2 seed in the Western Conference last season, it wasn't difficult to see them as a young team that was maybe a year or two away from serious championship contention.