Durant Scores 34, Nets Charge Back From 18 Down, Top Nuggets
Kevin Durant had 34 points, 13 assists and nine rebounds, and Bruce Brown made a huge contribution while starting for the absent Kyrie Irving.
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Kevin Durant had 34 points, 13 assists and nine rebounds, and Bruce Brown made a huge contribution while starting for the absent Kyrie Irving.
The Nets are also looking into the incident and say his return to the court has not been established.
Gordon Hayward scored 34 points and the Charlotte Hornets beat the New York Knicks 109-88 on Monday night for their fourth straight win.
Nikola Jokic had 22 points, 10 rebounds and five assists in another short night, and the Denver Nuggets reached .500 for the first time this season with a 114-89 victory over the New York Knicks on Sunday.
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander scored 31 points to lead the Oklahoma City Thunder to a 129-116 win over the Brooklyn Nets on Sunday.
The Memphis victory came despite 43 points from Caris LeVert, including 25 in the second half as Brooklyn overcame a 22-point, first-half deficit.
RJ Barrett scored 19 points for the Knicks, who had their three-game winning streak snapped. Julius Randle, scoreless in the first half, finished with 18 points, 12 rebounds and seven assists.
Brooklyn jumped out quickly and had a double-digit lead for much of the second half while winning its second straight, both without Durant.
The Knicks trailed by 18 in the first half but outplayed the Jazz in the second and won for the fifth time in six games.
Brooklyn, which entered the game having lost two straight and four of five, never trailed.
Julius Randle scored 28 points and grabbed 17 rebounds, Austin Rivers hit a huge 3-pointer and the New York Knicks rallied to beat the Atlanta Hawks 113-108 on Monday night.
Bradley Beal had 27 points, 10 rebounds and the assist on Thomas Bryant's go-ahead dunk with 14.9 seconds left, leading the Washington Wizards to a 123-122 victory over the Brooklyn Nets on Sunday.
Rivers missed New York's first four games with a groin injury before returning to the lineup Thursday. Two nights later, he made an impact.
The Atlanta Hawks are among the NBA's youngest, most exciting, and highest-scoring teams. Turns out they are pretty adept at learning lessons, too.
New York's bid for a three-game win streak was ruined by 3-for-36 shooting from 3-point range.
The opener of a two-game series was the third game in Nets franchise history where both teams had 100 points through three quarters.
Randle, who scored 18 in the first half as New York built a 16-point lead, completed his seventh career triple-double with an assist on Elfrid Payton's 3-pointer in the fourth quarter.
Tom Thibodeau's first victory as Knicks coach came surprisingly easy against a top opponent, as New York routed the Milwaukee Bucks 130-110 on Sunday night.
Gordon Hayward had 28 points, seven assists and six rebounds, and the Charlotte Hornets handed the Brooklyn Nets their first loss of the season, 106-104 on Sunday night.
Julius Randle scored 25 points and Alec Burks added 22 for the Knicks, who fell to 0-2 under Tom Thibodeau. Barrett, after a 26-point season opener, shot 2 for 15 and had 10 points.
RJ Barrett finished with 26 points and Alec Burks had 22 for New York, which lost on opening night for the fourth time in five years and the first time in coach Tom Thibodeau's tenure.
Durant shook off 18 months of rust in a matter of moments and finished with 22 points in 25 minutes of his first official game since rupturing his Achilles tendon while playing for Golden State in Game 5 of the 2019 NBA Finals.
Kevin Durant and the Golden State Warriors were trying to extend their stay atop the NBA when he crumbled to the court with a ruptured Achilles tendon on June 10, 2019.
Knicks legend "Earl the Pearl" Monroe, John Starks and other sports greats turned out to help hand out Thanksgiving meals.
Shamet, 23, is entering his third season. He split his rookie year between Philadelphia and Los Angeles, and spent all of last season with the Clippers.
