{"id":263367,"date":"2021-05-09T00:50:14","date_gmt":"2021-05-09T00:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/kevin-durant-scores-33-to-lead-nets-past-nuggets\/"},"modified":"2021-05-09T15:22:40","modified_gmt":"2021-05-09T15:22:40","slug":"kevin-durant-scores-33-to-lead-nets-past-nuggets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/kevin-durant-scores-33-to-lead-nets-past-nuggets\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Durant scores 33 to lead Nets past Nuggets"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><a href=\"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/nba\/odds\/odds-info\/2021\/ViewMatchup\/16502\/Brooklyn-Nets-Vs-Denver-Nuggets-Odd-Info\">Brooklyn Nets vs. Denver Nuggets NBA Odds &amp; Picks:  (Friday, May 9)<\/a><\/h1>\n<h1><a href=\"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/nba\/player-details\/20000884\/K.Durant\">Kevin Durant<\/a> had 33 points and 11 rebounds, <a href=\"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/nba\/player-details\/20000574\/K.Irving\">Kyrie Irving<\/a> scored 31 and the visiting <a href=\"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/nba\/nba-team-detail\/BKN\/home\">Brooklyn Nets<\/a> rallied to beat the <a href=\"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/nba\/nba-team-detail\/DEN\/home\">Denver Nuggets<\/a> 125-119 on Saturday night.<\/h1>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-263528 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/11213056\/Kevin-Durant-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Kevin Durant\" width=\"993\" height=\"559\" srcset=\"https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/11213056\/Kevin-Durant-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/11213056\/Kevin-Durant-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/11213056\/Kevin-Durant-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/11213056\/Kevin-Durant.jpg 1124w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 993px) 100vw, 993px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/nba\/player-details\/20001441\/N.Jokic\">Nikola Jokic<\/a> scored 29 points, Michael Porter Jr. had 28, Facu Campazzo tied his career-high with 19 points, Markus Howard scored 13, and Austin Rivers 12 for the Nuggets. Denver played without Aaron Gordon due to calf tightness.<\/p>\n<p>Brooklyn opened the fourth quarter on an 11-4 run to tie the game 108-108. Porter&#8217;s put-back dunk put the Nuggets back in front and Joe Harris hit a corner 3-pointer to give Brooklyn a 111-110 lead, it&#8217;s first since 3-0. A turnover and missed shot by Denver was followed by a Durant dunk to make it a three-point lead with 5:12 left.<\/p>\n<p>Irving hit a 10-footer and then split a pair of free throws, Jokic hit an 18-foot fadeaway and Durant hit a mid-range jumper to make it 118-114.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">KD in the CLUTCH.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfa5 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MaimonidesMC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@MaimonidesMC<\/a> Play of the Game <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GscwWY08y9\">pic.twitter.com\/GscwWY08y9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Brooklyn Nets (@BrooklynNets) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BrooklynNets\/status\/1391255609518006273?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 9, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>JaMychal Green&#8217;s three-point play made it a one-point game before Durant and Jokic traded made free throws. The Nets had two empty possessions but the Nuggets couldn&#8217;t take advantage and Brooklyn was able to hold on.<\/p>\n<p>Porter scored 21 points in the first half for the second consecutive night, and his steal and dunk late in the second quarter gave Denver a 66-45 lead, its biggest of the night.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Joker makes everything look so easy <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/38MwKNZYYR\">pic.twitter.com\/38MwKNZYYR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Denver Nuggets (@nuggets) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nuggets\/status\/1391238896143405059?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 9, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Nets scored the final six points of the period to take a 15-point lead into the half.<\/p>\n<p>Brooklyn kept surging to start the third quarter. Griffin made two 3-pointers and Irving scored 10 points in the first 3:55 of the period to pull the Nets within 77-74.<\/p>\n<p>Campazzo and Porter hit 3-pointers to stretch the lead to 83-74. Griffin stayed hot, hitting two more from deep to keep Brooklyn within reach.<\/p>\n<p>Jokic made two free throws to put Denver ahead by 12 but the Nets pulled within 104-97 heading into the fourth.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Field Level Media<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brooklyn Nets vs. Denver Nuggets NBA Odds &amp; Picks: (Friday, May 9) Kevin Durant had 33 points and 11 rebounds, Kyrie Irving scored 31 and the visiting Brooklyn Nets rallied to beat the Denver Nuggets 125-119 on Saturday night. Nikola Jokic scored 29 points, Michael Porter Jr. had 28, Facu Campazzo tied his career-high with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":263529,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-263367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}