If there’s a perception Kevin Durant’s decision to choose the Nets over the Knicks was easy, it wasn’t.
Jay Williams, an ESPN broadcaster and Durant buddy, told The Post the free-agent superstar had associates trying to pull him toward Broadway over Barclays Center.
“To give insight, there were people in his camp that wanted him to go to the Knicks,’’ Williams said in a phone interview. “It’s not like: Here’s the Brooklyn Nets and that’s it. Kevin’s his own dude. His relationship with Kyrie [Irving] was the differentiator to the whole thing.”
Williams may have been referring to Durant’s agent/manager Rich Kleiman, a New York resident and Williams’ business partner on the ESPN+ show “The Boardroom.