Posting and Toasting · Jan 14, 2021
Nets 116, Knicks 109: “Get Payton off the floor”
Photo by Nathaniel S. Butler/NBAE via Getty ImagesYesterday’s game felt a little... overshadowed, for some reason. Like something way bigger than the game at hand had happened for one of the two teams. I can’t quite put my finger on what that was.
At any rate, the Nets were short a few guys and came into MSG with a motivated Kevin Durant (playing his first back-to-back of the year just for the chance to beat up on the Knicks), the sharpshooting Joe Harris, and a bunch of random Knick killers (Timothe Luwawu-Cabarrot stood out). They won the game because Durant basically decided he wanted to win the game.
