In an NBA regular season game that ended this morning, the Brooklyn Nets sat at home against the New Orleans Pelicans, and the Nets won the Pelicans 120-105 and won at home. However, in this game, Kevin Durant was hit on the knee by his fallen teammate Bruce Brown during a defensive attack, and it did not take long to leave the field to return to the locker room, and never returned in the game.
In this game, the first quarter began in addition to Harden combing the offense, The returning Durant scored 12 points to lay a good start for the team and took an early double-digit lead, and Durant was accidentally knocked by Brown and left the court injured in the second quarter. However, the Nets were still able to maintain an efficient offense and continue to attack the opponent's position, and in this quarter, in addition to Harden, the role players led by Edwards continued to grab points, and they seized on the Pelicans' performance of only 5 points in the half to establish a 28-point advantage to end the first half.
The Pelicans changed strategy at halftime and recovered some of the point difference with a 17-7 offensive wave, but the Nets still had a double-digit lead in their hands without much threat, and the Nets broke out again in the final quarter to kill the game with a 14-6 offensive wave and seal the victory early. In the end, the Nets easily defeated the Pelicans despite Durant's injury to win the game 120-105.
Perhaps the only fly in the ointment was the injury of Kevin Durant, who forced a comeback in the 2018-19 Finals to break the Achilles tendon and eventually recuperated for a season at the Nets. Just as fans lamented that the league had lost another super scorer, Durant staged a return of the king last season. This season, Durant averaged 36.5 minutes per game, contributed 29.3 points, 7.4 rebounds and 5.8 assists, shot 52% from the field and 37.2% from three-point range, and if this continues, Durant is likely to become the NBA's leading scorer this season. With Durant's injury, Nash will also lose a trump card in a short period of time, and can only rely on Harden and Irving to lead the team.
In this game, James Harden also performed well, starting 38 minutes, shooting 9 of 15 to shoot a game-high 27 points, plus 8 rebounds, 15 assists, 1 steal and 1 block all-around performance. Durant retired injured, Harden carried the team, withstood the pressure, made great contributions at both ends of the attack and defense, and led the team to victory.
According to statistics, in the last four games, Ha has contributed 26 points, 7.25 rebounds and 13 assists. This battle, Harden 8 free throws 7, his career total of free throw hits, but also officially ranked among the top 10 in the history of the league, can be said to have reached a great personal milestone!
So far in his career, Harden has achieved a minimum of 25 points and 15 assists in a single game 20 times, of which the Nets career is 7 times, the most in team history, in other words, Harden has become the first person in the history of the Nets. And there is a more embarrassing record, counting this game, Harden's career three-point shooting number has reached 4458, surpassing Ray Allen's 4455 times, the first in NBA history.