Is Ashanti Performing During Knicks-Warriors A Free Agent Pitch To Kevin Durant?

There is still a lot of time before Kevin Durant’s potential free agency becomes a reality, but in the early stages of rumblings about what the future could hold, no team has popped up as much as the New York Knicks. This doesn’t mean that Durant is going to be a Knick come the start of the 2019 season, of course, but it does make Friday night’s game in which the Golden State Warriors travel to Madison Square Garden a little more interesting.

Knicks fans are known for being… let’s use the word “vocal” here. When they have the opportunity to try and make an impression who could, conceivably, end up in New York, they tend to turn out and chant and have a good time. We’ll find out in a few hours whether that ends up happening.

But one thing we do know is going to go down on Friday night is that Ashanti will sing the national anthem prior to tipoff. She’ll also do a halftime performance, per the Knicks’ Twitter account.

This normally would not be a big deal — Ashanti is from Long Island and has sang the anthem at Knicks games in the past. However, to tie it all back to Durant, as you might know, he used to tweet like a not-famous person. As some Twitter detectives have discovered, one of younger Kevin Durant’s favorite artists was always there when you called, and was always on time.

https://twitter.com/KnickFilmSchool/status/1055706074349797376

I’m not saying this is an obvious free agency pitch by the Knicks to let Durant know that one of his favorite singers is a Knicks fan who performs at games but I’m not not saying that, either. But if it is, the Knicks are giving Kevin Durant their all, tacitly saying “baby, be mine.” I, for one, feel good about these jokes.