Sometimes we try too hard to find meaning in our lives. We search for answers in hidden places. We construct narratives in our mind, fulfilling humanity’s innate compulsion to tell stories to explain our world. We try so damn hard to see what we’re not seeing that it can ring on conspiracy.



Especially because sometimes, it’s all right in front of us the whole time.



Take the Knicks’ connection to Kevin Durant. There has been lots of credible reporting linking them to the Warriors star this summer when he hits free agency. Most, if not all, is sourced — a layer of opaqueness added as a necessary trade-off so that reporters can provide information publicly. And talking to people around the NBA, they think Durant is, as of now, likely to head to the Knicks. It is what passes as either informed wisdom or groupthink.



It’s also worth looking at what the other half of this potential NBA marriage thinks. And we don’t have to...