Basketball star Kevin Durant on March 13 questioned why New York City’s mayor has kept a COVID-19 vaccine mandate for private employers in place, alleging the mayor wants attention. “It’s ridiculous. I don’t understand it at all. It just feels like, at this point now, someone is trying to make a statement or point to flex their authority,” Durant told reporters after New York’s two basketball teams played at Barclays Center in the Brooklyn borough. “Everybody out here looking for attention. I feel like that’s what the mayor wants right now; some attention,” he added. New York Mayor Eric Adams, a Democrat who was sworn in on Jan. 1, rolled back on March 7 the city’s school masking mandate and a COVID-19 vaccine mandate that required proof of vaccination to enter a range of businesses. But Adams has insisted on keeping in place a different vaccine mandate that requires employees …