MINNEAPOLIS – Kevin Durant scored 31 points as the Brooklyn Nets bounced back from a thumping defeat to the Los Angeles Lakers with a one-sided romp against the Minnesota Timberwolves on Tuesday.
Durant led the scorers in a 127-97 victory for the Nets, who are neck-and-neck with the Philadelphia 76ers at the top of the Eastern Conference with both teams owning identical 37-17 records.
Tuesday’s game at the Target Center in Minneapolis had been delayed by 24 hours as the city reeled from the aftermath of the deadly police shooting of Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old Black man, during a traffic stop on Sunday.
Durant, making only his third appearance since retu…
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