The Nets didn’t bathe Kevin Durant with costly items Thursday for his thirty fourth birthday as a result of, as coach Steve Nash put it, “what do you get somebody who has every part?”
Nash joked that his current to the 12-time All-Star was “a light-weight follow” in Brooklyn on Day 3 of coaching camp, although a few muffins additionally have been wheeled out after follow — and Alondes Williams led the crew’s rookies in a rendition of “Completely happy Birthday” to Durant.
“It was terrible,” Nash mentioned jokingly. “Our man is a 12 months older. Kudos to him for nonetheless enjoying at an extremely excessive historic stage at 34.”
Durant, who returned to the Nets after rescinding a summertime commerce request, will enter his fifteenth NBA season ranked twenty fourth on the all-time NBA/ABA scoring record with 25,526 factors. If he stays wholesome and out there this season, Durant might transfer up a number of slots, properly into the highest 20.
“Any time you get an opportunity to work in your birthday, I don’t know [how] pleasurable it's. Completely happy to share the house with him, and have a good time with him, 34 years of life,” Kyrie Irving mentioned of Durant. “It’s good being in a crew surroundings and having some enjoyable going by coaching camp.”
Irving likes what he has seen from Ben Simmons, the three-time All-Star, who didn’t seem in any video games for the Nets following his acquisition within the James Harden commerce in February, on account of mental-health points and a again harm that required surgical procedure.
“That stage of expertise and IQ and motivation and drive, something’s attainable,” Irving mentioned. “He has that ‘it’ inside him, so now we simply must slowly develop him the place he is aware of that he can simply go on the market and be himself. We would like him to be his highest potential of himself … and simply have some enjoyable being at peace round him.
“It’s going to take time clearly for health-wise, however we’re affected person, so simply await him to appear to be he’s in All-Star type once more, which I do know will occur quickly.”
The Nets waived guard Marcus Zegarowski, who appeared in eight video games final season for Lengthy Island within the G-League.
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