Durant is healthy and Kyrie Irving is healthy, and who knows when or if that will happen again at this time of year.
That’s what makes Game 3 against the Celtics in Brooklyn on Saturday night feel so damn win-or-else urgent.
On the subject of legacy, Durant’s is complicated by his 2016 decision to leave Oklahoma City for the ready-made championship team fielded by Golden State, even though KD was hardly the league’s first titan to align himself with fellow titans, AAU style, and even though the Warriors were hardly the league’s first stacked team.
On the other hand, after he won two rings with the Warriors, Durant’s ladder climb might’ve been compromised by his 2019 decision to trade Stephen Curry for Irving and a new challenge in Brooklyn, where he was guaranteed to have a much tougher road to more titles — after recovering from his ruptured Achilles — than he would’ve had by sticking with the Warriors. In the end, when judging superstars, this much is clear: Rings are the thing.
The big-ass foot that stepped on the 3-point line and turned an epic turnaround jumper into what seemed like the longest 2-pointer ever, and sent Durant into an overtime he was too exhausted to control. The Nets failed their franchise player last spring, not the other way around, which brings us to Saturday night at Barclays Center, and a first-round series with the Celtics that still seemed winnable despite Boston’s 2-0 lead.
It feels as if the Nets are down 3-0 in the series because of the way the games at TD Garden went down. In the opener, they threw away an otherworldly effort from a fired-up Irving
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