“They take us for granted,” Kevin Durant recently told Yahoo Sports’ Vincent Goodwill, referring to what seemed like precious little attention being paid to his Nets starting to play their best ball of the season. “Me and [Kyrie Irving] especially. We gotta jump through a Hula Hoop of fire [for people] to be impressed.”
You can kind of understand where Durant was coming from. “They” — we media members, as well as fans, onlookers and mess lovers of all stripes — leveled countless commentaries and condemnations at Brooklyn throughout months of chaos marked by trade requests, firings demanded and executed, sluggish vibes on the court and rancid ones off it.