Listen closely enough and you can hear it ticking even now. Tick tick tick. Anthony Davis is still under contract through at least the end of the 2020 season, thanks to a still massive five year (player option in the fifth season), $127.1 million contract signed nearly a year ago. The New Orleans Pelicans do not have that much time, as odd as it all sounds. Much of the time they did have is already wasted.
Kevin Durant decided, on July 4th of all days, that he was leaving the Oklahoma City Thunder to join the Golden State Warriors in the Bay Area.