Do the Knicks know something the rest of the league doesn’t?
“It means they’re pretty sure they’re getting [Kevin Durant],” one NBA executive told Bleacher Report.
Otherwise, Thursday’s Kristaps Porzingis trade — which created two max contract slots that could lead to the Knicks landing Durant and Kyrie Irving — makes little sense.
Another executive shared a similar sentiment with the website:
“The only reason you can justify doing it is you have some level of certainty in your own mind that you’re getting KD and Kyrie, or KD and whatever.”
The deal to send the 23-year-old Porzingis, still recovering from a torn ACL last February, to the Mavericks sent shockwaves through the league, a trade made to create cap space since Dallas took the Knicks’ two worst contracts, belonging to Tim Hardaway Jr.