Report: Knicks in play for Durant in 2016

We're probably going to be hearing a lot more of this sort of talk for the next year and a half, so you can include the New York Knicks as a franchise Kevin Durant will consider signing with as a free agent in 2016, according to Frank Isola of the New York Daily News.

"No question about it," Isola cites a source close to Durant as saying. "Kevin loves Carmelo (Anthony). It could work in New York. But never rule out the Thunder."

His Oklahoma City Thunder after all, own his Bird rights and he's on record as saying he loves OKC.

Speculation regarding a potential Durant exit from Sam Presti's small-market Thunder has ranged from his hometown Washington Wizards to Drake's veiled attempt at luring him to the Toronto Raptors, a team he rooted for as a kid.

The Knicks, after all, are in New York and are always assumed to be on big-name players' radars. In the summer of 2010, many had money on LeBron James ending up in The Garden. The team had cap space then (ultimately signing Amar'e Stoudemire and later trading for Anthony) and also look to be clearing the decks for the summer after next.