And this, of course, is why the NBA is so much fun.
Specifically, this is how the NBA can be every bit as interesting, and every bit as intriguing, when there are no games being played as some of the other sports are when they’re in-season, when there’s a full slate.
Every rational instinct, every reasonable impulse, screams that the Knicks should stay away from Kevin Durant. He was the best basketball player on the planet until his Achilles blew up a few weeks ago. And in the moments before that happened, the Knicks had every reason to throw every resource at him, to employ every trick in the book to try and recruit him.