Kevin Durant walked into his free agency meeting with the Thunder on Thursday morning through the front of the arena. The entrance for fans on game nights. A door, right off Reno Ave., he has probably used fewer than five times in his life.
Why? For optics, maybe: Durant and his team out in the open, caught by cameras as Sam Presti came out to greet them on the sidewalk. Or maybe Durant's crew was just dropped off on the street, offering him the most convenient route into The Peake. But either way, it was fitting: A public start to this oh so public free agency courtship.