Impossible to ignore the immense performance of Kevin Durant in this New York derby. The stats are stratospheric for the Nets player who finished with 53 points (second performance of his career), 9 assists, 6 rebounds and 2 steals. But it was also he who scored a decisive three-point shot that allowed the Nets to slip away to victory (110-107) with less than a minute left in the game.
But “KD” had not waited for the money time to put himself forward. He had weighed from the first balls touched in the match with a first quarter at 16 points. And as Evan Fournier had decided to answer him, the match was off to a flying start.
Fournier, without reaching the heights of Durant, will still be credited with a good game sheet (25 points, 5 assists, 9/13 in shooting), despite a loss of ball at the very end of the match which sounded the death knell of the hopes of the Knicks, who were probably lost by systematically defending two on Durant, even when he was out of shooting range.
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It’s the eighth time in his career that Durant has exceeded 50 points in an NBA game, and the second this season.
