Kevin Durant led a balanced Nets attack with 23 points against the Warriors, his former team, in a 143-113 rout Wednesday night at Barclays Center.
Steve Kerr has seen Kevin Durant at his best, when they spent three years and won two NBA championships together with the Warriors from 2016-19.
Durant netted 21 of his points in the first half on 8-for-9 shooting as the Nets established franchise records for points in a quarter and in a half as they led 91-51 at the break. That output represented the third-most points in any half in NBA history, behind the Suns, with 107 in 1990, and the Warriors, with 92 in 2018.
Durant ruptured his Achilles tendon during the 2019 NBA Finals with Golden State and missed the entire 2019-20 season after signing a free-agent deal with the Nets. But Kerr said he believes his former superstar has regained his premier level, especially this season, with a scoring average of 30.4 points per game.
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