It was no surprise where to find Kenny Atkinson on the afternoon when everything about basketball in Brooklyn changed forever. This was June 30, a Sunday. Old gym rats never really leave the gym, so Atkinson was on the eighth floor of the Nets’ regal headquarters on 39th Street and Second Avenue, overlooking Gowanus Bay.
The seasons never really end for a gym rat, it is all one long basketball conversation, always. Of course, on this day, there was only one subject on the lips of anyone who truly cared about basketball:
Where was Kevin Durant going?