“When we get Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving back, it’s gonna be scary hours for real”: Nets center Nic Claxton and NBA Twitter react to Brooklyn’s Big 3 returning soon

Akash Murty | 29/12/2021
"When we get Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving back, it's gonna be scary hours for real": Nets center Nic Claxton and NBA Twitter react to Brooklyn's Big 3 returning soon

Brooklyn Nets get a huge boost with Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving available for the next practice session.

Kevin Durant, Kyrie Irving, and LaMarcus Aldridge all cleared NBA’s Health and Safety protocols on Tuesday. With a two-day gap between the games, the Nets have a break in between before they begin practice on Wednesday. And all three of them are available for the drill.

After a long time, Kyrie will be available for a practice with the team, putting the KD-Kyrie-Harden trio on the court for the first time in months. But the Nets play their next 3 games in Brooklyn, which means Kyrie would be skipping all 3 of those matches.

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The Nets have 7 of their next 9 game at home, where the champion point guard is ineligible to play due to his refusal to adhere to New York’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate. The 7-time All-Star can only play the road games.

As James Harden, being back in the lineup and form, meant victories over the two LA teams. When all three of them play, it’ll be scary hours for the rest of the league.

Scary hours for the NBA with KD and Kyrie Irving back

Getting just KD and Aldridge back to the lineup solves most of the Nets’ problem on the court, adding Kyrie to the mix will make things too difficult for the teams to overcome the challenge. And NBA Twitter along with Nets’ Nic Claxton and David Duke Jr. believe scary hours are coming up for the league.

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Even without Kyrie playing a single game, the Brooklyn Nets (23-9) are atop the Eastern Conference. With Harden looking dominant in his two games since his return from health and safety protocols, there’s little to no doubt that this team will make the rest of the league pay.

 

Post Edited By: Arjun Julka
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Akash Murty

An Electrical and Electronics Engineer by degree, Akash Murty is an NBA Editor at The SportsRush. Previously a Software Engineer, Murty couldn’t keep himself away from sports, and his knack for writing and putting his opinion forward brought him to the TSR. A big Soccer enthusiast, his interest in basketball developed late, as he got access to a hoop for the first time at 17. Following this, he started watching basketball at the 2012 Olympics, which transitioned to NBA, and he became a fan of the game as he watched LeBron James dominate the league. Him being an avid learner of the game and ritually following the league for around a decade, he now writes articles ranging from throwbacks, and live game reports, to gossip. LA Lakers are his favourite basketball team, while Chelsea has his heart in football. He also likes travelling, reading fiction, and sometimes cooking.

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