In his most fulsome comments on why he chose the Brooklyn Nets last year (and not another New York team), Kevin Durant told J.J. Redick in very simple terms that the Nets met all his requirements. Specifically, here’s what he told Redick’s ‘The Old Man and the Three’ podcast on Wednesday. It was posted Thursday.
“Around February (of 2019) I was thinking, ‘I didn’t want to be the savior of the Knicks or New York.’ I didn’t care about being the King of New York. That never really moved me.