On January 16, Beijing time, the second quarter of the Nets and Pelicans game had an accident! Durant was accidentally injured to his knee by teammate Brown during a counter-attack, followed by a limp. Coach Nash was terrified and called out a timeout. Durant then went straight back to the dressing room, and the home fans fell silent.
With 5 minutes and 44 seconds left in the second quarter, Jones counter-attacked with the ball. Brown and Durant retreated, and Brown was knocked down in front of Jones while defending, but jones accidentally injured Durant's knee position by mistake in his elbow when he fell to the ground. A small deformation appeared in Durant's leg.
Durant immediately felt unwell, and then limped to the sideline to exchange two words with Nash. Durant didn't want to go off the field at first, and Nash didn't mean to replace him. But soon, Durant signaled that he couldn't hold on. Nash was also a little flustered at this time, no longer paying attention to what was happening on the field, but directly asking the referee for a timeout.
Durant was still limping, and soon he walked alone to the players' tunnel and back to the dressing room. Durant's horrific scene also made the Nets home fans take a breath, because no one knows Durant's importance to this team better than they do. There was a dead silence at the Barclays Center, watching Durant return to the locker room.
From the perspective of slow motion, Durant's injury is not a hard injury, and there are many cartilages in the knee position, which is very easy to injure. During his time in the Warriors, Durant had a similar injury experience, being hit by a teammate and stopping for a long time. Hopefully, this time Durant doesn't have too many problems, otherwise it will be huge bad news for both the Nets and Nash.
Sure enough, soon the Nets officially announced that Durant will not return this battle, although the Nets won this game without worry, but it is clear that Durant's injury will make the Nets' next game more difficult.