Durant expected to miss Nets’ game for virus contact tracing

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NEW YORK – Former NBA Most Valuable Player Kevin Durant of the Brooklyn Nets was expected to miss Saturday’s game at Philadelphia after a bizarre Covid-19 situation in a loss to Toronto.

The Nets listed Durant only as questionable for Saturday’s game in an afternoon injury report amid reports he would not even make the trip to face the 76ers.

Durant was planning to start Friday’s home contest, told he couldn’t after an inconclusive Covid-19 test for a close contact, then allowed to play later only to be pulled out in the third quarter after the contact returned a positive test.

“I was frustrated,” Nets guard James Harden said. “We follow the protocols…

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