Brooklyn Nets are sitting at no.10 seed with four games remaining for the end of the regular season. Durant and co. will have to get through the play-in tournament to secure their place in the postseason.
Kevin Durant shares his thoughts on the Brooklyn Nets’ season claiming his injury derailed the team’s season. The Nets’ superstar injured the MCL in his left knee in mid January and missed several weeks of action.
During that month and a half, the Nets, who were 27-15 at the time and still playing with Kyrie Irving on a part-time basis went on an 11-game losing streak and were 5-17 in Durant’s absence.
“To be honest, I feel like our season was derailed by my injury,” Durant said Monday, per ESPN. “So I’m not looking at it like we’re just not a good basketball team. It’s like there wasn’t a lot of continuity with me and Kyrie out of the lineup, that’s just what it is.”
During his absence, the Nets traded James Harden and Paul Milsap in a deal that involved Ben Simmons going back to Brooklyn. Simmons was ruled out for the rest of the regular season and the play-in tournament.
Even after getting Durant back on March 3 and getting Irving back fulltime on March 27, the Nets struggled to find balance and rhythm. The Nets currently sit in 10th place in the Eastern Conference with four regular-season games left to play.
The Brooklyn Nets will have to win two games to make the playoffs if the current standings hold. Durant still believes Brooklyn has the right approach and the team will make the postseason.
“You can talk about expectations and what you see this team on paper — I always said this, but every day matters,” Durant said. “You want to be a champion every second that you step on the floor, not just when we play a good team or the playoffs coming up.”
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