{"id":178248,"date":"2021-02-14T21:53:44","date_gmt":"2021-02-14T18:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/nets-are-team-to-beat-in-eastern-conference-draymond-green\/"},"modified":"2021-02-14T21:53:44","modified_gmt":"2021-02-14T18:53:44","slug":"nets-are-team-to-beat-in-eastern-conference-draymond-green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/nets-are-team-to-beat-in-eastern-conference-draymond-green\/","title":{"rendered":"#Nets are ‘team to beat’ in Eastern Conference: Draymond Green"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Nets are ‘team to beat’ in Eastern Conference: Draymond Green<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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Draymond Green has won three NBA titles with Golden State, including two alongside Kevin Durant, so he knows a thing or two about successful super-teams.<\/p>\n

After falling Saturday night to his former teammate and Brooklyn\u2019s newly assembled Big 3, the Warriors\u2019 three-time All-Star forward believes the Nets should be considered the favorite to reach the NBA Finals out of the Eastern Conference this season.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019ll be really dangerous in the East. I think there are some other good teams in the East that pose a threat to them, but they\u2019re the team to beat in the East, if you ask me,\u201d Green said after the Nets\u2019 17-point victory Saturday in San Francisco. \u201cIt\u2019s my opinion. That doesn\u2019t mean anything, but that\u2019s my opinion, they\u2019re definitely the team to beat in the East.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Nets (16-12) currently are third in the conference standings under first-year coach Steve Nash \u2014 behind Philadelphia and Milwaukee \u2014 entering Monday\u2019s game<\/a> in Sacramento. But they also have played only seven games (5-2) so far with Durant, Kyrie Irving and James Harden together in the lineup.<\/p>\n

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The Warriors\u2019 Draymond Green (l.) and the Nets\u2019 Kevin Durant on Feb. 13, 2021.<\/figcaption>
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Durant, who won consecutive MVP awards in the NBA Finals with the Warriors in 2017 and 2018, scored 20 points with six assists and five rebounds in 33 minutes Saturday night in his first game back in the Bay Area since suffering a ruptured Achilles in the 2019 Finals.<\/p>\n

Asked afterward what stood out to him about facing Durant and how he\u2019s looked during his injury comeback, Green replied: \u201cJust how no one in the world can stop him. And after playing him, I still don\u2019t think anyone in the world can stop him. But also I think what always stood out to me was his work ethic. When you watch Kevin work out\u2026every single move that he makes is at game speed. Which I think is absolutely insane, just so hard to do. If there\u2019s something that stood out to me more than anything it\u2019s his work ethic and how much he loves the game of basketball.\u201d<\/p>\n

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