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Kevin Durant’s Game 5 stat line had never been achieved before Tuesday

Nets star Kevin Durant carried the load with James Harden hobbled and Kyrie Irving out. The former Thunder F scored 49 points in the comeback win.

With no Kyrie Irving and a hobbled James Harden, the Brooklyn Nets were going to need everything Kevin Durant had if they were to get the win over the Milwaukee Bucks.

He did everything and more, becoming the first player in NBA history to reach 45-plus points, 15-plus rebounds and 10-plus assists in a playoff game, according to the Nets and The Athletic’s Shams Charania.

Durant played all 48 minutes of the 114-108 Nets win. He scored or assisted on 43 of Brooklyn’s final 52 points to lead the team to a 17-point comeback and victory.

Overall, Durant finished with 49 points, 17 rebounds and 10 assists. He shot 16-for-23 from the floor and had three steals and two blocks.

Twenty of his points came in the fourth quarter alone.

The only other players in NBA history to reach 40 points, 15 rebounds and 10 assists in a playoff game are Oscar Robertson in 1963, Charles Barkley in 1993 and Luka Doncic in 2020.

Brooklyn needed it, as Harden clearly wasn’t himself. He scored five points on 1-for-10 shooting in 46 minutes of play.

A different former Oklahoma City Thunder player took on the extra load. Jeff Green, coming off the bench, scored 27 points while shooting 7-for-8 from 3.

Green also helped force a turnover on Giannis Antetokounmpo with about 15 seconds to play. Had Antetokounmpo been able to handle the pass and score, he would have tied the game.

Antetokounmpo finished with 34 points.

The Nets took a 3-2 series lead with the victory and will have a chance to close it out in Game 6.

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Nets injury report: Jeff Green out at least 10 days

Nets forward Jeff Green will miss at least 10 days with a strained plantar fascia.

Nets forward Jeff Green will be out for at least 10 days with a strained plantar fascia that he suffered in Game 2 against the Boston Celtics, according to coach Steve Nash.

Green has been an integral player for the Nets in 2021. He averaged 11 points per game on 49 percent shooting from the field during the regular season.

Nash has raved about Green all year long for always being ready when the team was dealing with injuries and for stepping up for those guys in their absence. Recently, Green put up a great defensive performance against Boston in Game 1, helping to limit Celtics star Jayson Tatum. A couple days after that game, the 34-year-old claimed that he has “been like that” his whole career in regards to being able to guard players at all five positions.

This is a big loss for Brooklyn. Not only will the Nets miss out on his electrifying poster dunks, but also his veteran presence and energy that this team is just so used to having game by game.

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Nets’ Jeff Green is here to prove ‘you can still dunk at 34’

Jeff Green explains why he has been on a dunking rampage this season despite being 34-years-old.

Jeff Green has been catching bodies left and right as if he needs it for fuel this season. After clinching a playoff berth by beating the Raptors, the 34-year-old explained how he’s been able to sustain his nuclear athleticism despite aging on his way to this dunking rampage he’s been on. Keep in mind, nobody is safe when Green is around.

When asked about how he’s been able to still posterize players he said, “Age is just a number to me. I’ve been working on my body. I put myself in the best shape of my life. I’ve done great things throughout the years to be in this position to be able to do that. I’ve been lucky to be with some great vets throughout my years. You know, KG (Kevin Garnett). I’ve been with LeBron (James) for a year. You know Paul (Pierce). You know my beginning years, Kurt Thomas and Vince Carter. You know guys that played long years in this league. I got to see it first hand what it takes to prepare your body each and every night. I used what they did and I put my own twist on it on how it can work for me and it’s just paying dividends at this point and I just got to keep at it.”

Through his experiences playing with some of the game’s best players, Uncle Jeff has been able to come up with this effective routine that works for him to sustain his athleticism. As his career progressed up until this point, Green has improved his shooting and other elements of his game such as working the post. Thanks to his Green routine, his offensive game remains dangerous to guard and dangerous to stand in front of if you’re trying to block him.

To close, the ageless dunking machine didn’t forget to leave us with a piece of advise as we all continue to age, “Everybody uses age for a reason for why people can’t do things, but not me! I’m here to prove I guess that you can still dunk at 34, or how you put it! If I gotta continue to prove to people that I can continue to dunk I’ll keep doing it.”

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Jeff Green, Timothe Luwawu-Cabarrot questionable vs. Kings; Kevin Durant out

The Brooklyn Nets could be without more players than usual on Tuesday when they host the Sacramento Kings at Barclays Center.

Iman Shumpert may make his return to the floor in a Nets uniform on Tuesday when Brooklyn plays host to the Sacramento Kings — and fans at Barclays Center for the first time in 2020-21.

While the Nets may get Shumpert back from his hamstring injury and Tyler Johnson from his left adductor strain — both are listed as probable — Brooklyn may be without other important pieces on Tuesday.

After leaving the Nets’ win on Sunday against the Los Angeles Clippers early, both Jeff Green and Timothe Luwawu-Cabarrot are questionable to play Tuesday. Green is dealing with a right shoulder contusion, and Luwawu-Cabarrot has a right hip contusion.

Kevin Durant also remains sidelined due to a left hamstring strain. Spencer Dinwiddie (ACL surgery) is also out, and Reggie Perry is with Brooklyn’s G League affiliate, the Long Island Nets.

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Jeff Green dealing with shoulder contusion, will be evaluated Monday

The Brooklyn Nets lost a pair of players on Sunday, Timothe Luwawu-Cabarrot going down well before Jeff Green.

The Brooklyn Nets are red hot at the moment, but they could run into a fatigue problem very soon. Already down one of their stars in Kevin Durant (hamstring), the Nets were also without Tyler Johnson (adductor) going into Sunday’s game against the Clippers, which Brooklyn won.

With Iman Shumpert (hamstring), Spencer Dinwiddie (ACL surgery) and Reggie Perry (G League) all out, as well, the Nets continue to run thin — even with Nicolas Claxton’s return. Then Brooklyn lost Timothe Luwawu-Cabarrot in the first half of Sunday’s win to a right hip contusion. On top of that, the Nets lost Jeff Green in the closing minutes of their win over the Los Angeles Clippers after a collision with Patrick Beverley on a screen.

The Nets diagnosed Green’s injury as a right shoulder contusion. The forward will be evaluated on Monday.

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Free agency stock watch: Lonzo Ball, PJ Tucker, Gary Trent Jr. and more

As the 2020-21 NBA season progresses, players around the league are making a case to solidify the earning potential of their next contract.

As the 2020-21 NBA season progresses, players around the league are making a case to solidify the earning potential of their next contract.

Front offices often make decisions based on the “what have you done for me lately?” philosophy, which means that how much a player will receive in free agency is fluid and constantly changing. That means that while some have increased their value, there are others whose recent performances may end up costing them some money.

Of course, an overall body of work is the most important factor for an NBA contract. But for our newest series at HoopsHype, we are looking at whose stock has gone up – and down – over the last several games.

Jeff Green continues to be a ‘voice of reason’ in Nets locker room

The Brooklyn Nets looked much different on Wednesday, snapping their three-game losing streak vs. the Indiana Pacers.

Kevin Durant, Kyrie Irving and James Harden may be the first three players Nets fans think of to when considering which members of Brooklyn’s rosters have the most prominent voices in the locker room. But there’s already been an instance this season where players have noted Jeff Green’s emergence as a leader in the Nets locker room — and it appears he’s still trying to help steer the ship.

“He spoke after the last game; he spoke today when (the Indiana Pacers) made their run in the second half,” Steve Nash said following Brooklyn’s 104-94 win. “He’s definitely been a voice of reason, I think, for us this year in the locker room. So, he provides a lot with his experience and the respect he deserves.”

After the Nets snapped their skid on Wednesday, Joe Harris detailed some of Green’s message.

“Jeff didn’t have to say a lot,” Brooklyn’s sharpshooter said. “He just said, ‘Hey, what’re we going to do? Are we going to figured this out? Are we going to collectively come together? Or are we just going to keep having the same talk over and over again?’ … It was short and sweet, but it was to the point. It resonated wit everybody.”

Green and the Nets get back to work on Saturday on the road against the Golden State Warriors.

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Jeff Green accomplished something vs. 76ers only one other NBA player has

Jeff Green continues to be a reliable role player for the Brooklyn Nets throughout this unstable 2020-21 season.

James Harden and Kevin Durant are often the ones putting up noteworthy statistics for the Brooklyn Nets on a night-to-night basis. Harden logs a double-double almost every night, if not a triple-double, and continues to facilitate as well as anyone in the NBA, while Durant is showing he’s still one of the best scorers the game has ever seen, even after his Achilles injury.

But it wasn’t Durant (health and safety protocols), Harden or even Kyrie Irving (finger) who did something unique on Saturday against the Philadelphia 76ers.

Jeff Green scored 10 points in Brooklyn’s 124-108 loss. Not his highest-scoring performance as a member of the Nets, but Green’s output helped him reach 12,000 career points.

Green is now only the second player in NBA history to eclipse the 12,000-point mark while playing for his 10th different team, as pointed out by Justin Kubatko, the creator of Basketball Reference, on Twitter. Jim Jackson (1992-2006), is the only other player to accomplish this feat.

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James Harden, Nets react to NBA’s handling of Kevin Durant on Friday

Brooklyn Nets players weren’t exactly thrilled with what they and Kevin Durant had to go through on Friday against the Toronto Raptors.

The Brooklyn Nets lost 123-117 to the Toronto Raptors on Friday, but that was far from the big story given what else they were dealing with throughout the game.

Just before tipoff, Kevin Durant wasn’t allowed to start the game due to health and safety protocols. Then was cleared to play, making his first appearance off the bench in an NBA game — only to be pulled again in the third quarter and ruled out for the remainder of the night due to health and safety protocols.

Here’s what James Harden, Joe Harris and Jeff Green had to say about the events of the night on their respective Zoom calls with reporters after Friday’s fiasco:

How Nets players are reacting to report of James Harden trade

Kevin Durant, Jeff Green and DeAndre Jordan can only say so much about James Harden joining the Nets at this point.

Technically James Harden is not officially a member of the Nets yet, so Brooklyn isn’t exactly supposed address the reports that flew around on Wednesday. But as much as the win over the Knicks was important for the Nets, all anyone wanted to know more about was the deal.

As a result, several members of the Nets organization confirmed the trade was in the works — the first being Steve Nash when he revealed Caris LeVert, Jarrett Allen, Taurean Prince and Rodions Kurucs were unavailable for Wednesday’s game and not even in attendance.

Still, Nash refused to comment on the deal outside of mentioning detail that also applied to Wednesday’s game.

Here’s what Kevin Durant. Jeff Green and DeAndre Jordan said about the move: