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Durant: If I hadn t played the Bucks and hit the line with three points, the Nets Big Three would have great hope of winning the championship in the first year

4:55am, 11 July 2025【Basketball】

July 10th news, on July 10th, Lakers forward James' podcast program "The Brain of the Field" aired the latest episode of the second season. Durant is the guest of the program in this episode, and Nash continues to serve as the host. Durant talked about playing in the Eastern Conference semi-finals with the Bucks that year. His three-pointer crossed the line and missed the final shot, and the Bucks eliminated the Nets and finally won the championship.

In 2021, the Nets and the Bucks had a life-and-death battle. Durant hit a two-pointer at the last moment of regular time to tie the score, helping the Nets to score overtime. However, they missed a winning three-pointer in overtime and unfortunately ended in the Eastern Conference semi-finals. In that game, Durant made 17 of 36 shots, 4 of 11 three-pointers, 10 of 11 free throws, scored 48 points, 9 rebounds, 6 assists, 1 steal and 1 block!

On the show, Nash asked Durant, "Sometimes, I feel like I'm disappointing you. Then I think back to everything that happened. We're a team with Big Three, but we only played 16 games together."

Durant said, "Every game we played together is amazing."

{From my perspective, I felt a little disappointed. But then I realized that there were so many things for everyone to do, and I just hope that as a coach there would be more opportunities to grow."

Durant said, "I feel that too, you have been helpless too many times. You have to not only play the role of a principal, you just can't inject your basketball philosophy. You can't implement all your basketball knowledge. I don't think you can inject all this into everyone as we imagined. Because of the things that distract the team, the new crown is still There are injuries, and the most important thing I think is injuries."

Speaking of the Nets' chances to win the championship, he said: "I think we have a good chance to win in the first year."

Nash responded: "But we were injured, Harden shouldn't have played, he played with one leg. Irving was absent, and Jeff Green played and stopped."

Durant said: "I think the most important thing is that we had a great chance to win that year, if we didn't cross the line at that time. But this is life!"

In response to this, netizens said, ": Hahaha, the farthest two points in history"

"Oh... What a pity. That year, the little coach didn't cross the line and led the Nets to win the championship, so he could be the gods."

"I always say that crossing the line, that ball is not an open position or a single, and it feels very cool to be able to make it. I was shocked at that time"

"Antetokounmpo's footsteps against Irving are even more fatal!"

"Durant has really had a tragic fate. After leaving the Warriors for so many years, he still has no championship!"