The Nets will soon learn whether this latest superteam experiment was worth the trouble, writes HowardBeck. Can Kyrie Irving carry them for two weeks—or three, or four—without Kevin Durant to lean on?
It was just Brooklyn’s third loss in seven weeks, a rare road bump amid a renaissance season in which. But it looked more like a warning sign, a reminder of past failures and still-lingering frailties.
There were the Nets, demonstrating once again that—for all their collective star power, their soaring payroll and their unwavering swagger—they are thoroughly dependent on Durant for any consistent success., and perhaps much longer, while he recovers from a sprained right knee. It would be an exaggeration to say the next few weeks will define the Nets’ season. But it will surely reveal quite a bit about their character and their resilience.
A lot has gone right these last seven weeks, all of it significant. But really, the Nets’ rise is about one factor above all others: Durant,in this, his 16th season, at age 34. Durant makes everything else work, makes everyone around him better, and takes all the pressure off his two frequently flaky co-stars.
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