Just last weekend, Wolves fans were dusting off their KD Instagram edits and prepping the Photoshop jerseys. You know the ones — Durant holding up the No. 7 jersey next to a smirking Tim Connelly. It felt inevitable. Minnesota was on the verge of landing the greatest scorer of this generation. KD to the Wolves wasn’t a question of if, it was a question of how fast can you book the press conference?
Then the NBA did what the NBA does: chaos.
Word leaked from Durant’s camp that KD had a three-team preferred list and Minnesota wasn’t on it.