What's Buzzing: Kevin Durant traded, NBA champs crowned, new card chatter and more for a new week.

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1 -- Thunderstruck: We've got new NBA champs

2 -- Kevin Durant to the Rockets

3 -- 'Fest chatter

4 -- The Lakers have a new owner

5 -- All your National chatter

6 -- Still talking 2025 Topps Series 2

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Note: A break from The National coverage for this month's Making the Grade as Buzz preps to be at the show later today. Look for plenty more from Cleveland here soon.

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Like many collectors, Buzz is a fan of grading and knows that there are many reasons that collectors choose to slab cards. Sometimes it's to enhance the appeal and protect them when selling. Other times it's to protect an investment for the long-term or to protect for sentimental reasons. Or, it might be just for fun or curiosity about a potential grade.

Here's this month's grading diary here on The Buzz ...

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Could a new dominant rookie be here?

That's a question for the hobby as Oklahoma City guard Terrance Ferguson put on a show in his first career start Wednesday night against the Lakers -- you know, the team with those other rookies who are hot in the hobby.

The 21st pick in this year's NBA Draft is a 19-year-old without college experience, but it didn't matter on the court as he scored a team-high 24 points in 33 minutes as part of a 133-96 drubbing of Los Angeles.

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Kevin Durant will be a member of the Golden State Warriors next season, opting to join a team that lost just nine regular-season games before coming up one win short in the postseason.

We want to know what you think this means for his basketball cards ...

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>>> Collectors react to the news on the Blowout Forum.

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We all know why Oklahoma City's Steven Adams was in the headlines after Game 3 of the Western Conference Finals (and, if not, it's on heavy rotation on ESPN just tune in), but the New Zealand-born center just might be a guy on the team whose cardboard could be on the move if the Thunder can dethrone the defending champion Golden State Warriors.

Why?

He's not Kevin Durant or Russell Westbrook. The third-year star and former 12th-overall draft pick has a good amount of cardboard available so, just for kicks, let's take a look at some of his cards ...

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