Kevin Durant, Kyrie Irving removed from Nets injury report ahead of game vs. Hawks
After sitting out the second half of Brooklyn’s first back-to-back of 2020-21, it appears Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving will be available for the Nets’ game against the Atlanta Hawks on Wednesday.
The pair missed Monday’s game for similar reasons. Irving was ruled out so he could rest his surgically repaired right shoulder. Durant was scratched due to “injury recovery,” as Steve Nash and Brooklyn’s staff try to manage the forward’s surgically repaired Achilles appropriately.
“I think last night, [Durant] played a lot of minutes, and we were playing from behind. He had a pretty heavy load and demand, metrics, so we just wanted to be careful,” Nash said to reporters on a Zoom call before Monday’s game. “That’s the biggest output he’s had in 18 months or more. So, we just want to be careful and protect him and protect us from any negative consequences of him playing too much out of the gates.”
Both have been removed from Brooklyn’s injury report ahead of Wednesday’s 7:30 p.m. game against the Atlanta Hawks. Nicolas Claxton (right knee tendinopathy) and Spencer Dinwiddie (partially torn right ACL) are unavailable for the Nets.
