Why Kevin Durant has sights set on Phoenix; latest on Damian Lillard, Kings and Warriors
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Why Kevin Durant has sights set on Phoenix; latest on Damian Lillard, Kings and Warriors

New York Times  

A few thoughts here as Day 2 of NBA free agency unfolds… Kevin Durant sweepstakes, Day II All eyes are on Phoenix when it comes to Durant, the Nets star who is believed to be targeting the Suns as his preferred next destination. As the New York Daily News’ Kristian Winfield pointed out in the wake of the Rudy Gobert-to-Minnesota blockbuster that went down on Friday, the Nets’ asking price for Durant — two All-Stars, as we’d been told — may have just gone up. A quick story that I’ll never forget from that time… During All-Star weekend in Toronto that year, I had planned to stop in Oklahoma City for a Durant interview on my way back west. All these years later, people who lived through that situation with Williams say Durant’s respect for him grew immensely as he saw the graceful way he handled all that pain. The draft was much more of a question mark, as Blazers general manager Joe Cronin’s choice to take mystery man Shaedon Sharpe out of Kentucky with the seventh pick was a long-term play.

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