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Kevin Durant has been ruled out of tonight’s game against the Portland Trail Blazers
With 10 games remaining in the regular season, the Brooklyn Nets are now the No. 1 seed in the Eastern Conference in the playoffs. They got here through a lot of ups and downs as they played with elite players who were always out due to injuries one day or the other.
When Durant returned, James Harden had missed games due to a hamstring ailment and was still out.
Even after returning, Durant is still missing games due to injury management.
He will miss tonight’s game against the Portland Trail Blazers to rest and is already ruled out due to injury management.
Even after Kevin’s return, Kyrie Irving has had groin concerns and has missed games on occasion.
He was out of the last game against the Indiana Pacers on Thursday night due to discomfort.
Kevin Durant set a season record with 42 points in 36 minutes against the Indiana Pacers.
As a result, the Nets prevailed in Irving’s absence.
“Tomorrow will be a new task,” Nash said following Brooklyn’s fourth straight victory.
“We’ll see who’s available and how everything looks, and then we’ll play a really talented Portland squad and try to put on a good show.”
“What else can I say? “I have the privilege of mentoring Kevin Durant,” Nash explained.
“When you put him in the lineup, nice things happen.”
Durant had 10 assists, shot 16-of-24 field goals, and made all eight free throws in a great all-around performance against Indiana.
The Nets ruled out Kevin Durant
The Nets have ruled out Kevin Durant, who has stated that he will follow the coaching staff for the Thursday game.
“I’m going to follow the coaching staff’s lead,” Durant said of playing on Friday.
“My teammates understand the situation, so I just have to be ready for everything, I feel like.”
And when I’m on the field, I like to take things one possession at a time and see what happens.”
“I had to come back in the fourth for the next game, and maybe I could have negotiated it a little better if I hadn’t had to come back in the fourth.”
However, it is what it is. I tried to take it one possession at a time and simply trust what the coaching and training staff wanted me to do.”
Kyrie Irving is available to play against the Trail Blazers
Kyrie Irving was ruled out of Thursday’s game against the Pacers, which the Nets won.
“We’ll have to evaluate Kyrie as well… “But my thinking is that Ky will feel a lot better [Friday] and will be able to play,” Nash added.
“I’d say my vote is that Kevin does not play the second game of a back-to-back.”
Brooklyn coach Steve Nash preferred to see Irving on the field and Kevin Durant on the bench against Portland.
Nash also stated that he would rather have Blake Griffin play for the second straight night than Durant, who recently returned from a thigh ailment and missed 23 games earlier in the season due to a hamstring injury.
Kyrie will be assisted by Blake Griffin, who is not on the list of players ruled out for the game against the Blazers.
Kyrie will also have Alize Johnson, who had the greatest night on Thursday, scoring 20 points and grabbing a career-high 21 rebounds.
“There was electricity in the building from the time I stepped in,” Johnson remarked.
“I was prepared to go out there and show to myself that I belonged.”
Even though the Nets have already qualified for the playoffs, this does not guarantee that they will have an easy time defeating other teams.
Kevin Durant has been officially ruled out of the Nets’ game.
The Nets will take on the Blazers
The Portland Trail Blazers are one of these difficult-to-beat teams.
They’ve also been playing well, with back-to-back 21-point away wins against the Pacers and Memphis Grizzles.
“We were definitely ready to play,” veteran big Carmelo Anthony said after the Raptors’ 130-109 victory in Memphis on Wednesday.
“You could tell.” You could tell we were focused, and we understood how crucial this game was to us.”
Portland (34-28) is one game behind the Dallas Mavericks for the No. 6 spot in the Western Conference.
Because the top six clubs are exempt from the play-in round.
The Blazers are another squad with a lot of strong scorers.
Recently, the Trail Blazers had three 20-point scorers against Memphis, with CJ McCollum leading the way with 26 points and six assists.
While Norman Powell had 24 points and Damien Lillard had 23,
Portland led by as many as 33 points in the first half before rolling to a rout.
“It’s a five-man defense to me, so everyone has to do their thing,” Trail Blazers coach Terry Stotts said.
“The first half was about team defense for me, which included transition defense.”
The Blazers are out to exact revenge on the Nets.
Without Durant and Irving, the Nets upset host Portland 116-112 on March 23, with James Harden leading the way with 25 points and a career-high 17 assists.
Unfortunately, Harden will miss his 13th consecutive game on Friday due to a hamstring ailment.
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Injury news from the Nets
In addition to James and Durant, Bruce Brown and others
Chris Chiozza is out with a right-hand fracture, while Spencer Dinwiddie is sidelined with a partially torn ACL.
With so many players out, everything is now in Kyrie’s hands.
However, this is not the first time Kyrie has been left alone with the responsibilities.
In fact, he has guided the Nets to victories when both James and Kevin are unavailable.
Tonight’s game will also feature the return of Kyrie and the resting of Kevin.
