The Nets marketing campaign for next season portrays them as the “Kings of New York,” not Brooklyn. It’s based on the expected, hoped-for return of Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving ... and subtly, the continued mismanagement of their cross-river rivals who can’t seem to get out of their own way.
Now comes Doc Rivers, who appeared Wednesday on “The Boardroom” podcast, with Durant’s agent/manager Rich Kleiman. Rivers, the Clippers coach, said that he too thought that the KD would wind up as the “the King of New York City.