New York Knicks fans, we have finally, mercifully, made it. The season is over, the pain has ceased. The team can’t lose a game until at least October. Now it’s time for the period of speculation, which will really get going depending on where the ping pong balls fall on lottery night May 14th.
With free agency beginning on July 1, the Knicks have been pegged as the likely destination for current Golden State Warriors small forward Kevin Durant. According to Frank Isola of The Athletic, league executives are convinced that it’s happening.
“So sure are some executives and player agents of a Durant-Irving pairing in New York that one agent told The Athletic that Durant and Irving are debating on who will sign first.