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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NBA.com recently presented the results of their annual survey in which they asked the general managers of all 30 teams about their predictions for the upcoming season. According to NBA GMs, the Brooklyn Nets will win the title in 2021-22 while Nets superstar Kevin Durant is the favorite to get the NBA MVP award.

Brooklyn was the overwhelming pick to be future champions among the voters, receiving 72 percent of the total votes. The Los Angeles Lakers, who were favorites in last year’s survey, were given the second-best chance with 17 percent of the votes while the defending NBA champs, the Milwaukee Bucks, received just 10 percent.

The GMs predict that the MVP race will be a lot closer, with Durant’s 37 percent of the votes being closely followed by 33 percent of the votes for Dallas Mavericks phenom Luka Doncic. The duo is followed by the Bucks’ Giannis Antetokounmpo (13 percent), the Philadelphia 76ers’ Joel Embiid (seven percent), Brooklyn’s James Harden (seven percent), and the Golden State Warriors’ Stephen Curry (three percent).

The survey also showed that the NBA GMs would select Doncic to start their franchise among all other players, think the Memphis Grizzlies’ Jaren Jackson Jr. will have a breakthrough season in 2021-22, and expect the Houston Rockets’ Jalen Green to win the NBA Rookie of the Year award.

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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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NBA.com recently presented the results of their annual survey in which they asked the general managers of all 30 teams about their predictions for the upcoming season. According to NBA GMs, the Brooklyn Nets will win the title in 2021-22 while Nets superstar Kevin Durant is the favorite to get the NBA MVP award.

Brooklyn was the overwhelming pick to be future champions among the voters, receiving 72 percent of the total votes. The Los Angeles Lakers, who were favorites in last year’s survey, were given the second-best chance with 17 percent of the votes while the defending NBA champs, the Milwaukee Bucks, received just 10 percent.

The GMs predict that the MVP race will be a lot closer, with Durant’s 37 percent of the votes being closely followed by 33 percent of the votes for Dallas Mavericks phenom Luka Doncic. The duo is followed by the Bucks’ Giannis Antetokounmpo (13 percent), the Philadelphia 76ers’ Joel Embiid (seven percent), Brooklyn’s James Harden (seven percent), and the Golden State Warriors’ Stephen Curry (three percent).

The survey also showed that the NBA GMs would select Doncic to start their franchise among all other players, think the Memphis Grizzlies’ Jaren Jackson Jr. will have a breakthrough season in 2021-22, and expect the Houston Rockets’ Jalen Green to win the NBA Rookie of the Year award.

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