For the first time since the January 15 game in which Brooklyn Nets star forward Kevin Durant sprained his MCL in a contest with the New Orleans Pelicans, the Brooklyn star is not on the Nets’ injury report. That makes a matchup with the Boston Celtics this coming Sunday, March 6 a potential date for his return alongside Boston alumnus Kyrie Irving.
Irving is available given his vaccination status will not keep him on the sidelines as it does in New York City due to that municipality’s strict COVID-19 prevention requirements. So far, the Celtics have dominated the series with Durant and Irving out for both of Boston’s road matches with the Nets, who have also been without the services of sharpshooting small forward Joe Harris, out with complications to ankle surgery.
