Kevin Durant put up 31 points on a very efficient 11-of-15 shooting from the floor as the Brooklyn Nets went on to beat the Minnesota Timberwolves 127-97. Joe Harris added 23 points. Landry Shamet chipped in 19.
With the Nets already carrying an eight-point lead into the second quarter, they extended their lead even further with an 18-3 run to effectively take the Timberwolves out of the game.
Durant did most of his damage in the third quarter, scoring 14 points on 5-of-6 shooting and looking extremely comfortable on his pull-up jumpers.
“I felt good out there,” Durant said. “I felt like my wind and legs are getting under me. That’s really what I wanted out of this time. We’ll see how I feel in the morning. I’ll talk to coach and the training staff and see where we go from there.”
The Nets play the Philadelphia 76ers tomorrow in what should be a very competitive game in “The City of Brotherly Love,” so let’s hope Durant will be good to go for that one.
More from Brooklyn
- Durant said the ‘Liberty and Justice FOR ALL’ shirts the Nets and Timberwolves wore “spoke volumes” about the message both teams were trying to send. Durant also spoke on the police killing of Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old Black man from Minnesota: “Once we step on the floor, we understand what our job is. But the dialogue is never going to stop.”
- Nets head coach Steve Nash said that Kyrie Irving‘s availability for tomorrow’s game in Philly is “to be determined.” Irving missed the game in Minnesota due to personal reasons.
- Ben Simmons seemingly threw shade at the Nets, saying that “there’s only one ball and you gotta play defense too.” While the Nets are in the bottom 10 in passes per game, they are second in the league in points per game. Safe to say that their relative lack of ball movement isn’t holding them back.
- In an interview with Rohan Nadkarni of Sports Illustrated, former Net and current Indiana Pacers guard Caris LeVert opened up on his cancer scare and how he’s battling through the adversity that comes with it. Definitely worth a read.
