Achilles injury or not, Kevin Durant found a way to make a headline, when he said the New York Knicks were “not the cool thing right now,” in response to the team’s struggles attracting big-name free agents. Durant and Kyrie Irving signed multi-year contracts with the crosstown Brooklyn Nets in July.
Comments like that became notable enough for some members of the Knicks to respond; it started with head coach David Fizdale, who shrugged it off as appreciation for someone, unprompted, talking about his team, per NorthJersey.com’s Chris Iseman:
“All I know is every day somebody outside our organization is talking about us, and I’m flattered,” Fizdale said.