{"id":188804,"date":"2020-12-14T10:43:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-14T09:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=188804"},"modified":"2020-12-14T10:44:32","modified_gmt":"2020-12-14T09:44:32","slug":"durant-returns-to-action-after-a-year-and-a-half-and-makes-debut-for-nets-i-was-anxious-nervous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/durant-returns-to-action-after-a-year-and-a-half-and-makes-debut-for-nets-i-was-anxious-nervous\/","title":{"rendered":"Durant returns to action after a year and a half and makes debut for Nets: I was anxious, nervous"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Durant made his debut for the Brooklyn Nets and finally returned to action after 18 months.<\/p>\n<p>KD scored 15 points in 24 minutes in Nets\u2019 win over the Wizards in the NBA preseason.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/30516446\/nervous-kevin-durant-shines-return-injury-calls-brooklyn-nets-debut-good-step\">Per ESPN<\/a>, &#8220;I was anxious, nervous,&#8221; Durant said afterward. &#8220;I visualized this moment for so long &#8212; nine, 10 months of thinking about how it would be, this next phase of my career. I felt like I was chomping at the bit, especially once COVID hit because I didn&#8217;t see a future &#8212; when the season was going to start in the future. I was going through it.<\/p>\n<p>The Nets went on to defeat the Wizards 119-114. Durant finished shooting 5-of-12 from the field with 15 points, 3 rebounds and 3 assists in 24 minutes of play.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It felt great, you know, to be back in a routine and get back on the floor and feel like a player again,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I didn&#8217;t think I played great. I felt I had some solid moments.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yCreNB5eHlc\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nets went on to defeat the Wizards 119-114. Durant finished shooting 5-of-12 from the field with 15 points, 3 rebounds and 3 assists in 24 minutes of play<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[187],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-188804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nba","typology-video"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188804\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188804"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=188804"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=188804"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=188804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}