Kevin Durant struggled again, and as a result, the Nets lost 114-107 to the Celtics before a raucous sellout crowd of 19,156 at TD Garden on Wednesday night.
BOSTON — Everybody who watched Kevin Durant struggle as the Nets lost Game 1 of their first-round series against the Celtics said he wouldn’t shoot that poorly again.And as a result, the Nets lost 114-107 before a raucous sellout crowd of 19,156 at TD Garden on Wednesday night.
Durant finished with a team-high 27 points, but he shot 4-for-17 with another six turnovers. Only an 18-for-20 night from the free-throw line made Durant’s totals look good.N.Y. Post: Charles Wenzelberg That didn’t happen. The Nets rode Irving’s 39 points in the opener, but he had just 10 Wednesday. After the Nets took a 90-83 lead late in the third quarter, they coughed up a 13-2 blitz that spanned into the fourth.Kevin Durant, who scored 27 points, shoots over Daniel Theis during the Nets’ loss.Teams that go up 2-0 in a seven-game series win 92.4 percent of the time .
They pulled ahead 62-45 on a running Durant pull-up with 1:45 left in the first half. But the Nets have had issues closing out quarters all season, and that came back to bite them not once, but twice, as they gave away another game.Charles Wenzelberg/New York Post
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