As soon as the Houston Rockets acquired the Phoenix Suns' draft picks from the Brooklyn Nets as an extension of the blockbuster Mikal Bridges trade on Tuesday night, momentum that the Rockets were going to pursue a star rapidly grew. The one name that was quickly linked to the Rockets in trade rumors was Suns superstar Kevin Durant.

There have been no indications that the Suns are willing to split up their newly formed Big 3 of Durant, Devin Booker, and Bradley Beal despite being swept in the first round of the NBA Playoffs. With the 2024 NBA Draft just hours away from beginning, Suns owner Mat Ishbia took to social media to shut down these Durant trade rumors himself, reassuring everyone that the 14-time All-Star is staying in Phoenix for the foreseeable future.

“NBA Draft night is the best. Everyone talking about the drama and storylines, some are right and some are just wrong,” Ishbia wrote. “My turn. Phoenix loves Kevin Durant and Kevin Durant loves Phoenix, and we are competing for a championship this year because we have the team to do it. Gotta love draft night! Go Suns.”

Ishbia has never been afraid to voice his opinion on the state of his organization, and his social media post on Wednesday should tell everyone everything they need to know about where things stand in Phoenix.

Durant has not once said publicly that he is unhappy with the Suns, nor has he expressed a desire to play elsewhere to the Suns' front office or Ishbia. The first year of Phoenix's Big 3 experiment did not go well, but the entire franchise remains of the belief that Durant, Booker, and Beal present the best path to contending for a championship. After hiring Mike Budenholzer in the offseason, the Suns' goal remains getting to the NBA Finals.

Even though he is now 35 years old and set to turn 36 during the 2024-25 season, Durant is still one of the best players in the world. In his first full season with the Suns, Durant averaged 27.1 points and 6.6 rebounds per game while shooting 52.3 percent from the floor and 41.3 percent from three-point range. He played in 75 total games, the most Durant has been available for since the 2018-19 season with the Golden State Warriors.

What the Rockets look to do with their abundance of draft capital, most of which originally belonged to the Suns, is yet to be seen. However, as the Suns and the rest of the league prepare for the NBA Draft on Wednesday night, Ishbia has made it clear that a trade involving Durant won't be considered in the slightest.