Get out those tea leaf readers, NBA fans: The free agency frenzy came early this season — sort of.



While some of the league’s biggest stars still can’t decide their hoops fates until July 1, the blockbuster trade that sent Kristaps Porzingis from the New York Knicks to the Dallas Mavericks on Thursday came with all sorts of potential ramifications and one central question.



Can the Knicks turn this KP deal into a free agency KO by bringing Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving to town?



It has never looked more possible.



All around the league, executives who are paid handsomely to track this sort of thing had the same takeaway: The Knicks, who have been widely known to be targeting Durant for so long now and whose general manager (Scott Perry) was part of the Seattle SuperSonics front office team that drafted him out of Texas in 2007, must be very confident that they’re going to get the Golden State star. Some rival executives even...