This comes down to Money & Winning. He signs with OKC & waits for Russell to bounce with him. Durant will look at 3 places next year. NY, LA (Lakers or Clippers) & Warriors.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Carmelo Anthony tells ESPN that his recruitment of Kevin Durant has already begun, saying: "We've been together. We've been talking."</p>— Marc Stein (@ESPNSteinLine) <a href="https://twitter.com/ESPNSteinLine/status/747495034832850946">June 27, 2016</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Kevin Durant: "Obviously they have a good team now with D-Rose & Melo & Porzingis so I will talk to my team and we will figure things out."</p>— Ian Begley (@IanBegley) <a href="https://twitter.com/IanBegley/status/747520975009255424">June 27, 2016</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
Hope he goes to Miami if anything to put him in the east and also to make the east more than a one team race, give Cleveland some competition
This would be the best move for him conference-wise, PR-wise, and team composition-wise. LeBron and Durant are going to take turns reaching the finals every season.
Harden tells espn that his recruitment of Kevin Durant has already begun. We've been banging strippers together, doing illegal thangs. We've been talking to the same hoes.
Why would he say that to the press? From Larry Coon: 95. What is tampering? Tampering is when a player or team directly or indirectly entices, induces or persuades anybody (player, general manager, etc.) who is under contract with another team to negotiate for their services. The NBA may impose stiff penalties if tampering is discovered, however the league's practice has been to wait until a team lodges a complaint before investigating (but that's not to say they don't continue to monitor the leauge and won't take action independently if they discover that tampering has occurred). Here are some examples: The Miami Heat were discovered to have tampered with Pat Riley in 1995 by negotiating with Riley while he was still head coach of the New York Knicks. The Heat "settled," and avoided league-imposed penalties, by compensating the Knicks with $1 million and their first round draft pick in 1996. After Will Perdue left San Antonio in the 1999 offseason to sign with Chicago, he commented to the press about the possibility of the Bulls signing Tim Duncan and/or Grant Hill in 2000. The league considered this to be tampering, and issued Perdue a warning.
Anyone who thinks Durant is going to the Knicks is delusional. They are even more delusional if they believe the Rockets have a snowball's chance in hell. Durant is staying in OKC.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Kevin Durant's 1st meeting will be with OKC on Thurs, June 30, in OKC. He'll then fly to NY to meet with the Warriors on July 1, sources say</p>— Chris Broussard (@Chris_Broussard) <a href="https://twitter.com/Chris_Broussard/status/748176711452397569">June 29, 2016</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
Nothing to do with the Warriors being in NYC. All the websites are saying Durant and his agent decided on the Hamptons as to the venue to talk to the perspective teams. So hence, the Warriors meeting will be there.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Kevin Durant isn't scheduled to meet with the Knicks but <a href="https://twitter.com/BovadaLV">@BovadaLV</a> gives them better odds than teams meeting him. <a href="https://t.co/ynEfR3PIhj">pic.twitter.com/ynEfR3PIhj</a></p>— Arash Markazi (@ArashMarkazi) <a href="https://twitter.com/ArashMarkazi/status/748193661419020288">June 29, 2016</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
Not home to Tweet it but it says the Warriors are looking to get Noah and Gasol if they can't get Durant.
