The Cleveland Cavaliers will be entering next season in limbo with doubts over the futures of their star duo LeBron James and Kyrie Irving. 

LBJ will be a free agent in 2018 and Irving has already submitted a trade request to the Cavs hierarchy. 

Kyrie's desire to leave Ohio is certainly the biggest story of the NBA offseason and reports have been surfacing on a weekly basis about where he could end up. 

The four-time All-Star reportedly told the Cavaliers that he has four preferred destinations; the San Antonio Spurs, Miami Heat, Minnesota Timberwolves and New York Knicks. 

The Wine and Gold have prioritised getting a young star in return for Irving and have an interest in doing a deal with New York if they can acquire Kristaps Porzingis in return. 

However, it seems the Knicks are not interested in parting ways with their talented young Latvian, even for a legitimate superstar like Kyrie. 

According to Steven Marcus and Mike Rose of Newsday: "The Knicks don’t appear interested in trading Kristaps Porzingis, including a possible deal for Cavaliers All-Star point guard Kyrie Irving, according to a league source…

“[Knicks president] Steve Mills and [Knicks general manager] Scott Perry on the record were very clear that Kristaps was part of the future,’’ the source said in reference to comments made last month by both executives. “In all the discussions since then — there were other rumors before that Cleveland would want Kristaps — and it didn’t seem that [the Knicks] were interested at all in a conversation.’’

This should come as no surprise as the Knicks would be foolish to let the big man go as he is the future of the franchise and still has two years remaining on his rookie contract. 

Irving would, of course, come in and do better than Porzingis immediately as he is one of the best scorers in the league and can transcend any team right away.

He can get buckets at will and can help the Knicks win next season, but the franchise must look at the bigger picture and further down the line. 

KP could be better to build a contender around and at 22, he still has the best years of his career ahead of him and it should be in the Big Apple. 

He scored 18.1 points and grabbed 7.2 rebounds a game last year, whilst shooting 35.7 percent from three.

Nicknamed 'the unicorn' due to his variety of skills, there simply aren't many players like him in the league and the Knicks should embrace his talents and work to put pieces around him to allow him to flourish into the player he's capable of becoming.