NEW YORK — It was the biggest game Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving ever played as teammates, the weight of their Brooklyn experiment hanging in the balance.
And like a 39-year-old Brooklyn hipster in a basement apartment with a Harvard degree, they underachieved.
What a sad way to go out. Durant and Irving each had a measly 16 points in Saturday’s 109-103 loss to the Celtics, leaving the Nets in a 3-0 hole in the first round. As you know, zero NBA teams have overcome that deficit. These Nets, lacking backbone or smart adjustments in this series, don’t look like the team to break that streak.
