T.J. Warren had waited so long for his hard-earned return to an NBA court that it felt like a dream. After a two-year fight to come back from multiple stress fractures (a total of 703 days, to be e…
The last time Warren played an NBA game — Dec. 29, 2020 — Donald Trump was still in the White House. Episodes of Jeopardy! with Alex Trebek were still airing, nearly two months after his death. And COVID-19 vaccines had just begun being administered.“It’s a huge hurdle,” Nets coach Jacque Vaughn said.
Warren, whose trek back was Odyssean after two surgeries for stress fractures he suffered while with the Pacers, checked in to applause with 4:14 left in the first quarter. Almost immediately, he pump-faked Chris Boucher and hit a 14-foot baseline jumper. “I was interested in that first shot. What was it gonna look like? How long, how short was it gonna be? Was it gonna hit the rim? … That thing was beautiful to watch,” Vaughn said.
Warren capped a 15-0 run to put the Nets up 32-10. And fittingly he also padded the lead to 36, his put-back making it 67-31 with 5:25 left in the first half. “You get anxiety before the ball is tipped just leading up to this moment. I’m sure he had his day circled for a while now,” said Kevin Durant, who missed a year following a ruptured Achilles. “Now that he’s out there, he got his feet wet a little bit, he can relax.”“We’ll look at it [Saturday],” Vaughn said. “Hopefully it’s nothing serious and we can look on.”
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