“I don’t think it surprised me (that Durant and Irving didn’t want to play for the Knicks). We all read Durant’s quotes. We know what he said,” Anthony, now a forward on the Blazers, said. “Whether you agree with him or not, that just goes to show you people have different perspectives about it. It’s not always — ‘Oh, that’s the Knicks and we’re going to get somebody, it’s a guarantee.’ Nowadays players are not thinking about that. Players want to be able to go to a situation where they can enjoy it, have fun and not have to deal with that.”