Gotta love these types of rumors. While we’re still dealing with this year’s free agency, talk about free agency next year for Kevin Durant has already begun. Can’t we just get through this first?! Geez-us.
S00000oo, a report has surfaced already claiming to know where KD will land IF he leaves the Thunder next season. Any guesses?! The only reason we’re sharing this is because it’s coming from Stephen A. Smith and he’s a reliable source. Check it out…
Via PBT:
Kevin Durant holds a STRONG connection to his native Washington, D.C., and he becomes a free agent in 2016. Could the Wizards sign him? Who would they be competing with besides the Thunder?
Stephen A. Smith of ESPN, as transcribed by Dan Steinberg of D.C. Sports Bog:
“I don’t think anybody, to be quite honest with you,” Smith said. “Obviously the New York Knicks would be in the mix and what have you. But there are folks that I’ve spoken to that are relatively close to Kevin Durant that tell me if he were to decide to leave Oklahoma City, it would be for the nation’s capital. That’s the kind of dude he is. That’s a place that he would consider.
“I certainly don’t want to sit here as a reporter and insider and try to give indications that he’s planning on leaving Oklahoma City,” Smith said. “I don’t know that to be sure. I don’t know that to be the case. But I was told that if there is a team that would be strongly considered, it is the Washington Wizards, and him returning home.”
Steinberg adds an important note:
