
The Nets have Kevin Durant. That’s where it starts and ends with this trade. They can’t rely on Kyrie Irving, who remains out on a personal leave and has demonstrated, time and again, he is, at best, a flaky personality and, at worst, uninterested in basketball. But Durant is reliably great. It was reinforced Wednesday when Brooklyn pounded the Knicks, 116-109, with Durant calmly dropped 26 points in just 30 minutes. Even on that surgically-repaired Achilles, you could argue he’s the best player in New York NBA history, counting Walt Frazier, Willis Reed and Patrick Ewing. Durant’s a top-15 al…