LOS ANGELES — Suppose you are Kevin Durant or Kawhi Leonard and you are considering your options this summer as free agents. You are weighing the options of a pair of teams in the biggest markets, the Knicks and Clippers. And suppose they turned on the television to check the meeting between the two Sunday afternoon.
While both teams have traded away star players and cleared the camp space for two max contracts this summer, there is a far different mood in place between the two teams. It isn’t just that one city was covered with snow Sunday while the other endured a slightly overcast sky.