Kevin Durant looked unstoppable in the first four minutes of the Brooklyn Nets game against the Miami Heat on Sunday afternoon, but then he got hurt and forced himself to miss the rest of the game. The nets announced that he had a left-thigh concussion, which caused him to leave the game in the first quarter of the game after scoring the Nets’ first eight points.
Brooklyn lost an exciting game, 109-107, in which Heat forward Bam Adebayo nailed a springboard jumper to the buzzer to win again, again showing that the Nets KD could definitely be on both sides of the world use. the floor. After the game, Nets head coach Steve Nash said he was not sure how serious Durant’s injury was and whether he needed an MRI, but the team did Exclude Durant for their game Tuesday against the Pelicans.
“He’s hurt, but we do not know how serious,” Nash said. ‘See you tomorrow [Monday] how he wakes up and leaves, but at the moment nothing has been determined. ‘
Nets forward Jeff Green was a little more optimistic about Durant’s injury in his comments after the game.
“I think it’s just going to be a day-to-day thing,” Green said. ‘I know he’s been happening regularly for the last few weeks and he wants to play there. I’m sure he’s going to do what he has to do to get back on the floor. ‘
The game that caused the injury came when Durant drove to the edge, and in repeating the video, it looks like Trevor Ariza’s knee hit Durant’s left thigh on the way to the basket.
Durant had just returned to Brooklyn last week after missing almost two months of action with a hamstring injury. If Durant has to miss more time, it will be another big blow for the Nets, who have yet to bring a lot of chemistry between his three stars in Durant, James Harden and Kyrie Irving.
“Every time one of our teammates goes down, there will definitely be a hit for us when something like that happens,” Irving said after the game. “And he’s just back. We’re just praying that it’s not too serious and that he can recover, but it’s sometimes a hit on our continuity. It’s just a reality we have to accept. We’re asking a lot of guys to to do superhuman things, to play backs, to play three in four nights, or to play six in eight nights or nine nights, whatever the schedule is.
The Nets are already without Harden, who has missed the last five games with a hamstring injury, and Irving has been in and out of the series several times due to injuries and personal reasons. Together, Durant, Harden and Irving only played seven games together, but they were incredibly strong offensively. The problem is getting everyone healthy at the same time, which has not been easy this season. Hopefully all three stars will be healthy for the playoffs. Otherwise, it could be a serious problem in Brooklyn’s quest to win a championship this year.