The Nets expect to have Kyrie Irving, James Harden and Kevin Durant all available for just the eighth time on Saturday, Malika Andrews of ESPN writes. Brooklyn will host Chicago in its second-to-last game of the season.
“If everything stays the same, those three will play tomorrow,” head coach Steve Nash said after the team’s practice on Friday.
Despite coping with injuries this season, Brooklyn still holds the second-best record in the East at 46-24. The team has struggled to build on-court chemistry due to inconsistent lineups — though it appears to be regaining health just in time for the playoffs.
“I’m just happy they are on the floor,” forward Jeff Green said of his team’s big-three. “We’re getting to finally try to create a rhythm with all guys healthy. We’ll see what happens from there. We have a long week to prepare for whomever we play. For those guys, it will be good. For us, it will be good to get a look and see where we are at when everybody is healthy.”
There’s more from the Atlantic Division today:
- Knicks guard Derrick Rose missed Thursday’s contest against the Spurs due to a minor ankle injury, Marc Berman of the New York Post writes. “Just needed a day,’’ head coach Tom Thibodeau said. “We knew we were getting a couple of guys (Immanuel Quickley and Alec Burks) back so we thought it would be good to give him the rest.’’
- The Raptors will look to add to Nick Nurse‘s staff this summer with former assistants Nate Bjorkgren and Chris Finch gone, Blake Murphy of The Athletic tweets. Bjorkgren has since joined the Pacers as head coach, while Finch has become head coach of the Timberwolves.
- Celtics legend Kevin Garnett wishes that he joined the team sooner, he said during his Hall of Fame induction speech on Friday. “My only regret in any of this was that I should have came to Boston a little earlier. Other than that, it was magical,” Garnett said, as relayed by Taylor Snow of Celtics.com (video link). Garnett ultimately joined the team via trade in July of 2007.
Unless he miraculously leads the pacers to the NBA finals Bjorkren is 100% going to get fired. So maybe he comes back to the raps??
Pacers in the nba finals
Possible but highly unlikely
News
Steph Curry, Draymond and Wiggins will not play ESPN tonight
Warriors are saying Wiggins is injured
Do you believe it？
Very life like. Almost human. Like Siri standing at the water cooler.
Maybe if you tell the players that if they get to the Finals, the team will fire the coach, then they might get there. But if the players understand that the coach will be retained if they make it to the Finals? There is no way that formula is going to balance out.
The Athletic link takes me to the NYPost piece, but it tells me the Knick record with Derrick Rose is 22-11, so I can’t complain. He gets too revved up when he starts.
I use to be a huge fan of KG… that is until he went to BOS, then I didn’t much care for him anymore.
IMO his biggest regret should be that he left MIN at all, but that is just me anyway, I do love my one team players, you know, right?
His biggest regret should be that he left a crappy franchise that hasn’t won anything in the last 15 years instead of going to play with other superstars and win?
Not to mention the awful owners.