Brooklyn Nets superstar Kevin Durant's manager, Rich Kleiman, is reportedly in the running to be the next president of the New York Knicks, according to Marc Berman of The New York Post.
The Knicks fired Steve Mills on Tuesday. Kleiman is a New York native and lifelong Knicks fan:
With owner James Dolan looking at making various agents as potential presidential candidates, don’t sleep on Kevin Durant’s man, Rich Kleiman, according to NBA sources.
Kleiman, a native New Yorker, has always desired to run the Knicks. Kleiman was a force in having Durant at least consider the Knicks last year. The scuttlebutt was Durant would join the Knicks and Kleiman would take on a prominent front-office role. That possibility slammed shut when Durant chose the Nets, along with Kyrie Irving.
Many thought Durant was going to sign with New York in free agency this past summer because of Kleiman's love for the franchise. Durant told Toronto Raptors big man Serge Ibaka on his cooking show that he picked the Nets over the Knickerbockers in free agency because Brooklyn was “farther along in the process of being a contender.”
The Nets made the playoffs last season and have a good core and infrastructure. New York, meanwhile, had the worst record in the NBA in 2018-19 and have been a walking disaster under Dolan for years.
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