12.6 and 1,300. Those are possibly the two most important numbers to consider when answering this question. Why? That's how far (in miles) it is from Montrose Christian School, where not exactly, but you get the gist), he could look past all the other numbers and just go back home to try to bring a title back to his hometown.

The only thing that might prevent him from doing just that is this:

It might be hard to sit alongside $2 billion. If that's the case, the cap should jump from about $66 million in 2015-16 to about $80 million in 2016-17. For the sake of this article, we're going to assume the round figure of $80 million.

With that being said, both the Thunder and Wizards should expect to have a lot of cap space to go around in 2016. Oklahoma City, as their payroll stands now (via basketball-reference.com), would have only two current players, Westbrook and Ibaka, and one former player, on the books without any kind of option. That total would stand at about $31.1 million. If they would pick up team options on four other players, that would bring the total to about $41.5 million. But, let's assume they don't and they want to have as much cap space as possible to keep KD around. That would leave them (with the cap at $80 million) with roughly $48.9 million in cap space.

As for the Wizards, with their current payroll, they would have only four players under contract without picking up any options. Those four players are Wall, Gortat, Forbes' most recent valuations, both teams are valued around $900 million. Surprisingly, however, Oklahoma City has the edge by $30 million with a value of $930 million.

So, would D.C. really be the smarter choice financially? Probably. Durant would surely raise that value with his own arrival while OKC would likely see a decrease. When it comes to salary, it's just a matter of who will be paying KD the maximum he can get.

But even with all the numbers and money signs floating around his head, two numbers -- 12.6 and 1,300 -- might be the deciding factor for KD come 2016.