“Durant’s list of preferred trade destinations contains three teams,” Stein wrote. “Yet it almost had four. The Stein Line has learned that the Knicks also would have featured on that list but were ultimately omitted when New York made it clear that it has decided against pursuing a trade for the NBA’s No. 8 all-time leading scorer.”

Late Saturday night, ESPN reported that Kevin Durant has three preferred destinations: the Miami Heat, Houston Rockets and San Antonio Spurs. The timing of that reporting was, to

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