Kevin Durant’s former teammate believed the Nets star was beaten down by the Celtics to the point of surrender during his Game 3 dud.
“The Celtics have snatched the Nets soul,” Kendrick Perkins said on the Celtics postgame show for NBC Sports Boston on Sunday. “They’re punking them. They’re punking KD. They done made Kevin Durant quit. He had no interest at all in playing this game. He was not engaged.”
Durant, 33, managed just 11 shots in Saturday’s 109-103 defeat to the Celtics, sending the Nets into a 3-0 series hole and requiring a victory Monday to avoid an embarrassing sweep.
