{"id":430822,"date":"2022-04-13T06:31:42","date_gmt":"2022-04-13T03:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/nets-kevin-durant-shows-cavs-why-hes-ultimate-heartbreaker\/"},"modified":"2022-04-13T06:31:42","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T03:31:42","slug":"nets-kevin-durant-shows-cavs-why-hes-ultimate-heartbreaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/nets-kevin-durant-shows-cavs-why-hes-ultimate-heartbreaker\/","title":{"rendered":"#Nets&#8217; Kevin Durant shows Cavs why he&#8217;s ultimate heartbreaker"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2d211a860c0\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2d211a860c0\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/nets-kevin-durant-shows-cavs-why-hes-ultimate-heartbreaker\/#%E2%80%9CNets_Kevin_Durant_shows_Cavs_why_hes_ultimate_heartbreaker%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Nets&#8217; Kevin Durant shows Cavs why he&#8217;s ultimate heartbreaker&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CNets_Kevin_Durant_shows_Cavs_why_hes_ultimate_heartbreaker%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Nets&#8217; Kevin Durant shows Cavs why he&#8217;s ultimate heartbreaker&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<div class=\"inline-module inline-module--columnist inline-module--author\">\n<div class=\"inline-module--author__img\">\n            <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"76\" height=\"69\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/mike-vaccaro.png?w=76&amp;h=69&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-nyp_columnist size-nyp_columnist\" alt=\"Mike Vaccaro\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/mike-vaccaro.png 76w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/mike-vaccaro.png?w=38 38w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 76px) 100vw, 76px\"\/>      <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>He will break your heart, every time. It\u2019s what he does. You can fight and scratch and claw from 20 points back; the Cavaliers did that Tuesday night. You can sneak the deficit into single digits, with enough time left on the clock to dream; the Cavs did that, too. The Cavs were outclassed, outmanned, outgunned for 3 \u00bd quarters.<\/p>\n<p>Yet here they were.<\/p>\n<p>And it didn\u2019t matter.<\/p>\n<p>Because Kevin Durant plays for the Brooklyn Nets, and so he wasn\u2019t going to allow the unthinkable to h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>en on his watch. He wasn\u2019t going to allow the Cavs to pull off an absurd comeback, wasn\u2019t going to permit his team to have to endure a one-and-done gauntlet Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>Three times, just as the Cavs were starting to get funny ideas, he crushed them with clutch critical baskets, and he allowed Barclays Center to roar and his teammates to breathe. He broke the Cavs\u2019 spirit and then he broke their hearts. It\u2019s what he does.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s as advertised,\u201d Nets coach Steve Nash said after the Nets had beaten the Cavs, 115-108, clinching a date with the Celtics in the playoffs; <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Game<\/a> 1 between the second-seeded C\u2019s and seventh-seeded Nets will be Sunday.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/041222Nets047CW.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Nets\" class=\"wp-image-21881343\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/041222Nets047CW.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/041222Nets047CW.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/041222Nets047CW.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Kevin Durant led the Nets to a win over the Cavaliers in the play-in game on Tuesday.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Charles Wenzelberg\/New York Post<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>For most of the night it was Durant\u2019s running mate, Kyrie Irving, who ignited the party in Brooklyn. He hit all 11 of his shots through the third quarter. He finished with 34 points and 12 assists, missing just three of his 15 shots.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re superstars,\u201d Nash said. \u201cIt\u2019s what top players do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Cavs had cut the Nets\u2019 lead to 88-82 when Darius Garland made a 10-foot floater with 8:43 left; it was as close as the Cavs had been since the first quarter, but Durant promptly drained a corner 3 to expand the lead to nine. Later, the Cavs crawling back to within 99-93, Durant hit back-to-back 16 footers to expand the Nets\u2019 lead to 103-93.<\/p>\n<p>And that was that.<\/p>\n<p>Durant finished with 25 points and 11 assists. Irving may have taken the fans\u2019 breath away; Durant was the one who restored it when things started to look a little dicey. It\u2019s what he does.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"822\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/041222Nets070CW.jpg?w=822\" alt=\"Nets\" class=\"wp-image-21881359\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/041222Nets070CW.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=822 822w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/041222Nets070CW.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=411 411w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/041222Nets070CW.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 822px) 100vw, 822px\"\/><figcaption>Kyrie Irving (l.) celebrates with Kevin Durant.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Charles Wenzelberg\/New York Post<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWe knew they would throw a lot of different defenses at us, try to slow us down,\u201d Durant said. \u201cIt\u2019s going to take a lot of effort for 48 minutes each game. We\u2019ll see what happens.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Forget everything that bewitched, bothered and bewildered the Nets this season. There has been one reason to tune in every night to watch them play \u2014 well, at least 55 days and nights, anyway, plus Tuesday night. Kevin Durant is that reason.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing else has gone according to plan during this three-year chapter. The Nets were quickly excused from the bubble in 2020. James Harden pushed his way here, arrived and played well, grew disenchanted, pushed his way out, all in the space of 14 months. Irving has been hurt, he\u2019s been unvaccinated and unavailable. The Nets were going to win 60 games this year. They settled on 44, and needed a 12-5 hot streak at the end to get there.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1000\" height=\"669\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/041222Nets077CW.jpg?w=1000\" alt=\"Nets\" class=\"wp-image-21881374\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/041222Nets077CW.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1000w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/041222Nets077CW.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=500 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\"\/><figcaption>Kevin Durant<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Charles Wenzelberg\/New York Post<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>Through it all, Durant has been magnificent.<\/p>\n<p>Through it all, Durant has been the one thing the Nets can count on, game after game, night after night, crisis after crisis. He was given a novice coach and all he\u2019s done is help make Nash\u2019s job easier for him. He was given a pair of supporting stars in Harden and Irving who were chronically unreliable and a third, Ben Simmons, who has yet to suit up for the Nets \u2014 and just kept playing at an almost unimaginably high level.<\/p>\n<p>Through it all, Durant has remained, at age 33, at worst the third- or fourth-best basketball player on the planet, averaging 29.9\/7.4\/6.4 and shooting .518\/.383\/.910.<\/p>\n<p><em>(One man\u2019s list, for kicks and giggles: 1. Giannis Antetokounmpo; 2. Nikola Jokic; 3. Durant; 4. Joel Embiid. Though I\u2019d vote Jokic for MVP.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Durant\u2019s own choice might surprise you.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I had to choose, I would go Joel Embiid,\u201d Durant said. \u201cHe led the league in scoring, double-doubles, his team won 50 games this year. Numbers were incredible. It\u2019s a great year. But you can just close your eyes and just pick any one of the guys out of the top six or seven, and you can have a good MVP this year. That shows how great our league is right now and how talented our league is from top to bottom.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Among those six or seven, of course, is Durant, who constantly has shaken off the various and sundry issues that subvert the Nets\u2019 mission, who simply makes them better by stepping on the floor and breaking the other team\u2019s heart. It\u2019s what he does.\n                        <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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