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Kevin Durant: I never considered playing for the Knicks

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Rehabbing star Kevin Durant dismissed the narrative that he picked the Nets over the Knicks. He said he was always all-in on Brooklyn, and never even considered the Garden.

“That’s the media hyping that (crap) up. I never came out and said anything about me wanting to play for the Knicks, ever. Ever,” Durant said in an interview on Showtime’s “All the Smoke.” “Then when we came here last year, they had the billboards up and somebody asked me about it, and I wasn’t too excited about it, because I didn’t like it.