This is proof that stacking individualities does not always work, even in basketball.
At the start of the season, with its XXL recruiting (Durant, Irving, Harden), Brooklyn was suddenly an insatiable ogre, after years of anonymity.
Depending on the injuries of its stars, the season turned out to be more complicated than expected, with a bench well below the capacities of its headliners.
The war machine was in any case mainly intended to roll in the play-offs.
The Eastern Conference semi-final, against the Milwaukee Bucks Antetokounmpo, looked like a final, as the two franchises were favorites for the NBA title.
The clash was up to the event, with a seventh game that went into extra time.
KEVIN'S EQUALIZATION SHOOT LASTING 😱
2 centimeters and the Nets were in the conference final 🤯 pic.twitter.com/n8jVXvJUcC
- FadeAway (@FrenchFadeAway) June 20, 2021
With two sizes less, Durant could even have qualified his team.
But on his buzzer shoot, his shoe caught the arc of a circle.
Consequence, two points instead of three, and a fatal extension to the Nets.
Durant, the best scorer in Game 7 history with 48 points, couldn't do it all alone.
Antetokounmpo, author of 40 points, was much better supported by Middleton and Brook Lopez to win this unbreathable extra-time (115-111 ap) and go to the final of the Eastern Conference.
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