The New York Knicks have done all the right things to position themselves for a complete turn of the page, in line to sign two max free agents in the offseason and a great shot to garner the top overall pick in this year's NBA Draft.

An Eastern Conference GM thinks the Knicks could spin into relevance if they can get current Golden State Warriors star Kevin Durant to join, and they could become very good if another star joins him:

“The Knicks are instantly a .500 team with him,” the GM told Frank Isola of The Athletic. “With him and somebody else, they’ll be a very good team. Or there’s always the possibility that he doesn’t know what he’s getting himself into. Unproven roster, unproven coach. High expectations.”

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The Knicks have a largely hollowed-out roster full of young players who have only mustered a 16-win season thus far. Due to that poor roster construction, a lot of the credit and also the blame will rest on Durant and his new partner in crime. It's a task many seem to seek, but none actually want when it comes to facing a pressing New York media:

“Early on, it will be a coronation. But if he can’t deliver big, New York is going to take him to task,” said the GM. “The fans and the media will hit him. He didn’t experience that in Golden State because he always won and in Oklahoma City they don’t do that. That’s the thing about New York; you have to really want New York.”

Playing in New York is a whole other monster in itself, one that could eat outer-conscious people alive like Durant and Kyrie Irving, who constantly concern themselves with what is being said about them.

Even if Durant is successful in putting the Knicks in contention, the media's greedy view of him as the “savior” of New York could quickly turn from reverence to misdirected anger at the flip of a coin.