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Playing for a chip ... with one on their shoulders

Vincent Goodwill of Yahoo! Sports has been talking with Kevin Durant lately and in that conversation, the Nets superstar talks about how things are going (very well) and how his Nets (and they are his Nets) have burdens other teams don’t, including how they are unliked, under appreciated and generally counted out when talk turns to titles.

“We understand what we’re doing on both ends. It’s that simple,” Durant said when asked by Goodwill what’s working. “We know what kind of defense we want to play, what kind of offense we want to run. And that just makes everybody more comfortable.