NBA: The insulting superiority of Kevin Durant | Brand
Of all the players that populate the basketball planet, Kevin Durant is the one who shows the widest repertoire and the one who shows the greatest signs of being unstoppable. He is a frustrating player for any defender who, no matter how hard they try to mark him, ends up with the feeling of having been vastly outclassed.
That's the image he left again against the Sixers, 122-113, in a game in which he gave quite a recital with 34 points, 11 rebounds, 8 assists scoring up to decisive four-point plays and distributing passes that only he saw. He has been among the most complete players in the NBA for some time, but sometimes his superiority is almost insulting.
Before Philadelphia the game was compromised. First, due to the many casualties of the Nets, including that of James Harden, due to the covid. And above all because in front was another predator like Joel Embiid who usually takes advantage of the matches against the big stars to claim his throne. The Cameroonian went up to 32 points and 9 rebounds, but did not achieve victory for his team, as KD did.
Already immersed in the month of December, the debate on the race for the MVP is revived with force. At this point, Durant is one of the strongest candidates since the season began. His sublime performance and the first place in the East of the Nets give him absolute favoritism, and only a superlative Stephen Curry, at the level of the MVP he won in 2016, or that extraordinary Giannis Antetokounmpo are preventing the NBA from giving him the award. right now.
Watching Durant is a delight because of the number of records he uses in a game, in a play. Perhaps we are talking about the most decisive player of recent years whose recovery from an injury as serious as Achilles is almost miraculous.
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Against the Sixers, Durant ended up chanting MVP, MVP! and the player wanted to return so much love to the public at the end: "There is nothing like playing in Brooklyn. They show great love and appreciate the best basketball. We will continue fighting for them."
Results of the day
When the ballots for title candidates are distributed, the Suns usually get few, very few. They began with those doubts that many took advantage of to think that the team had reached its ceiling with a final and now only a hard fall awaited them. But not. The Arizona regular season is being so fabulous that they are the best team in the League tied with the Warriors.
After beating the Washington Wizards by a comprehensive 118-98, the Suns lead the West with the same record as Golden State, 23-5. Since last October 27 they have won 22 of the 24 games they have played including the best streak in the League, 18 victories in a row. And they are a choral ensemble, something that usually gives many guarantees. Against the Wizards, no Phoenix player reached 20 points, but eight of them reached or exceeded 10, including the starting five. It would be great if the top candidates take these Suns very seriously, who are looking to repeat their experience in the final.
You don't have to score 35 points to be the best on the NBA day. Sometimes a player who makes just 15 can make the top list if, like Miles McBride, you sign a no-loss stat line.
Because it is very unusual to finish a game with 15 points, 9 assists and 4 steals in 36 minutes coming off the bench and not having lost a single ball. McBride was the best in terms of all-round performance in the Knicks' 103-116 win over the Rockets, a game in which Usman Garuba had just two minutes of action.
