Not even a sore shoulder could stop Kevin Durant against his former team the Oklahoma City Thunder on Sunday night. He managed to put up 33 points while adding eight rebounds and four assists to lead the Brooklyn Nets to a convincing 120-96 win.

Durant revealed he has shoulder issues while chatting with reporters after the game but downplayed the severity of the situation.

“It’s solid,” Durant said via ESPN when asked about the injury. “A little sore here and there, but I played, didn’t get in the way too much. Keep getting treatment and take it a day at a time.”

The Nets’ head coach Steve Nash described Durant’s injury as “a little tweak” and said that the team doesn’t expect it to be an issue moving forward.

“I don’t think it’s the type of thing that we expect to get worse so he’s kind of playing through it, so it’s not terrible,” Nash added.

Kevin Durant has put together an MVP-worthy season in 2021-22 and currently averages 29.6 points per game. He is also contributing with career-high 8.4 boards while shooting an impressive 58.6 percent from the field and 42.4 from deep.

Durant’s performances helped Brooklyn to turn around their ugly start of the season and have the team on a three-game winning streak. The Nets are second in the East with a 10-4 record at the moment.

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Many people still regard LA Lakers’ superstar LeBron James as the best player in NBA, but former Chicago Bulls’ great Toni Kukoc believes that isn’t the case anymore. According to Kukoc, Kevin Durant should hold that title.

Kukoc, who won three NBA titles with Bulls and was NBA Sixth Man of the Year in 1996, recently took part in Reddit’s AMA segment in which he answered questions from basketball fans all over the world. One of Reddit users decided to ask the 51-year-old Croatian about his favorite playmaker of the “current era.”

“Basketball doesn’t require a playmaker anymore, somebody that you always look for that has to bring the ball up the floor,” Kukoc responded. “In this era, there’s so many players with multiple skills, that it’s almost a waste of time to look for the playmaker when someone can push the ball and get into the offense.”

Kukoc then went on to call Durant “the best player in the NBA.”

“Plenty of times LeBron is mistaken as a point guard, which is awesome,” he added. “Kevin Durant, to me in my personal opinion, is the best player in the NBA. He can easily bring the ball up the floor. That’s a style that the triangle offense allowed that any one of us could run the point or be a post person or fill the corners. It’s not requirement to have a point guard, you can have skill players with 3 or 4 guys on the same team playing multiple positions.”

Toni Kukoc isn’t the only one who thinks Kevin Durant was the best player in the NBA in recent years. Many believed that Durant took that title from James when he led the Golden State Warriors to two consecutive NBA championships over James’ Cleveland Cavaliers, winning two NBA Finals MVP awards in the process. 

However, Durant hasn’t played basketball almost a year due to nasty Achilles injury, so his case might not be as strong as it was before. It remains to be seen whether he’ll make another run for the throne once he recovers. 

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Not even a sore shoulder could stop Kevin Durant against his former team the Oklahoma City Thunder on Sunday night. He managed to put up 33 points while adding eight rebounds and four assists to lead the Brooklyn Nets to a convincing 120-96 win.

Durant revealed he has shoulder issues while chatting with reporters after the game but downplayed the severity of the situation.

“It’s solid,” Durant said via ESPN when asked about the injury. “A little sore here and there, but I played, didn’t get in the way too much. Keep getting treatment and take it a day at a time.”

The Nets’ head coach Steve Nash described Durant’s injury as “a little tweak” and said that the team doesn’t expect it to be an issue moving forward.

“I don’t think it’s the type of thing that we expect to get worse so he’s kind of playing through it, so it’s not terrible,” Nash added.

Kevin Durant has put together an MVP-worthy season in 2021-22 and currently averages 29.6 points per game. He is also contributing with career-high 8.4 boards while shooting an impressive 58.6 percent from the field and 42.4 from deep.

Durant’s performances helped Brooklyn to turn around their ugly start of the season and have the team on a three-game winning streak. The Nets are second in the East with a 10-4 record at the moment.

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Many people still regard LA Lakers’ superstar LeBron James as the best player in NBA, but former Chicago Bulls’ great Toni Kukoc believes that isn’t the case anymore. According to Kukoc, Kevin Durant should hold that title.

Kukoc, who won three NBA titles with Bulls and was NBA Sixth Man of the Year in 1996, recently took part in Reddit’s AMA segment in which he answered questions from basketball fans all over the world. One of Reddit users decided to ask the 51-year-old Croatian about his favorite playmaker of the “current era.”

“Basketball doesn’t require a playmaker anymore, somebody that you always look for that has to bring the ball up the floor,” Kukoc responded. “In this era, there’s so many players with multiple skills, that it’s almost a waste of time to look for the playmaker when someone can push the ball and get into the offense.”

Kukoc then went on to call Durant “the best player in the NBA.”

“Plenty of times LeBron is mistaken as a point guard, which is awesome,” he added. “Kevin Durant, to me in my personal opinion, is the best player in the NBA. He can easily bring the ball up the floor. That’s a style that the triangle offense allowed that any one of us could run the point or be a post person or fill the corners. It’s not requirement to have a point guard, you can have skill players with 3 or 4 guys on the same team playing multiple positions.”

Toni Kukoc isn’t the only one who thinks Kevin Durant was the best player in the NBA in recent years. Many believed that Durant took that title from James when he led the Golden State Warriors to two consecutive NBA championships over James’ Cleveland Cavaliers, winning two NBA Finals MVP awards in the process. 

However, Durant hasn’t played basketball almost a year due to nasty Achilles injury, so his case might not be as strong as it was before. It remains to be seen whether he’ll make another run for the throne once he recovers. 

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