He will break your heart, every time. It’s what he does. You can fight and scratch and claw from 20 points back; the Cavaliers did that Tuesday night. You can sneak the deficit into single digits, …
He will break your heart, every time. It’s what he does. You can fight and scratch and claw from 20 points back; the Cavaliers did that Tuesday night. You can sneak the deficit into single digits, with enough time left on the clock to dream; the Cavs did that, too. The Cavs were outclassed, outmanned, outgunned for 3 ½ quarters.Because Kevin Durant plays for the Brooklyn Nets, and so he wasn’t going to allow the unthinkable to happen on his watch.
Three times, just as the Cavs were starting to get funny ideas, he crushed them with clutch critical baskets, and he allowed Barclays Center to roar and his teammates to breathe. He broke the Cavs’ spirit and then he broke their hearts. It’s what he does., clinching a date with the Celtics in the playoffs; Game 1 between the second-seeded C’s and seventh-seeded Nets will be Sunday.
Forget everything that bewitched, bothered and bewildered the Nets this season. There has been one reason to tune in every night to watch them play — well, at least 55 days and nights, anyway, plus Tuesday night. Kevin Durant is that reason. Nothing else has gone according to plan during this three-year chapter. The Nets were quickly excused from the bubble in 2020. James Harden pushed his way here, arrived and played well, grew disenchanted, pushed his way out, all in the space of 14 months. Irving has been hurt, he’s been unvaccinated and unavailable. The Nets were going to win 60 games this year. They settled on 44, and needed a 12-5 hot streak at the end to get there.
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