BowlRips wrote:https://forums.realgm.com/boards/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=1726871

Check out the latest edition of the Lowe Post Podcast featuring Zach Lowe, Howard Beck and Rachel Nichols.
At 27min mark, they bring up Durant and Rachel Nichols immediately brings up the Knicks as a viable option.
Seems to be in the tone of "informed speculation"
But reasons she cites are

- one upping Lebron on his move to LA
- KD's manager, Rich Kleiman, ties to the Knicks
- Durant not being satisfied in Golden State
- Warriors brass unsure if Durant wants to remain there and were even concerned he would leave this offseason
- Opportunity for KD to fix his image
- Return of the Mecca
- Scott Perry's ties to Durant when he was working for Sonics when KD was drafted there

She said if KD takes meetings then he will def meet the Knicks.
She put odds that KD as more likely that not that this could happen.
Lowe and Beck both agreed that you can't dismiss the idea it could happen

Burke
Hardaway
Hezonja
Knox
Top 5 pick

Imaging getting your cheeks done in by our first team then you have to deal with Burke Hardaway and Knox off the bench....

Frank
SG
KK
KD
KP

Not so small

P.S.: I get why folks mock the notion that Durant would consider the Knicks as long as James Dolan is slouching over the franchise, but you're kidding yourselves if you don't think New York will try. People who have spent years around Durant can't say for sure what he wants from the game. It's unclear if he knows. Some of those people predict, if you force them, that he will one day leave Golden State for a team that can be truly his.

I have no idea. I do know that Rich Kleiman, Durant's business manager, is from New York. Scott Perry, New York's GM, was an executive with the Seattle SuperSonics when they drafted Durant and remains close with him.

New York will obviously have company pitching Durant, if he hears pitches. (Golden State's new arena doesn't open until the 2019-20 season; who could blame Durant for wanting to play in it?) Those suitors will bring track records of basic competency the Dolan-era Knicks have rarely achieved.

But New York will try.

Next summer is going to be a whirlwind. Rest up.

knicks1248 wrote:the knicks have got to figure a way to open up more cap space, they have a shot at grabbing possible 2 Max players in

KD
Butler
Irving,

Yet if they resign KP before the seasons over, and a 9 mill a cap hold for Mario, they would be left with roughly 10 mill. Max contracts are starting at 30 mill and that's a discount.

The only good thing is, Noah, lee and lance will have expiring deals.

No chance without surrendering picks. If we get the first pick we could trade it for a team willing to absorb Noah and Hardaway jr