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If the Warriors go to Denver in the playoffs, Kevin Durant's bringing a broom
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<blockquote data-quote="admin" data-source="post: 3393552" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><img src="http://l.yimg.com/os/en/homerun/feed_manager_auto_publish_494/5294b155056b6204961a38e95d28918c" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />If only Kevin Durant had been wearing his trusty headphones after the game, too. (Getty Images) The Denver Nuggets incinerated the Golden State Warriors on Monday night, burying the league-leading Dubs beneath an <a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/news/shorthanded-nuggets-crush-warriors-with-record-tying-24-three-pointers-064822516.html" target="_blank">NBA-record-tying 24 3-pointers</a> en route to a convincing <a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/golden-state-warriors-denver-nuggets-2017021307/" target="_blank">132-110 win</a>. The victory opened some eyes to just how potent the Nuggets’ offense can be when it’s cooking — Denver now ranks ninth in the NBA in offensive efficiency, scoring a stellar 109 points per 100 possessions — and, with the 25-30 Nuggets sitting two games ahead of the Portland Trail Blazers and Sacramento Kings in the <a href="https://yhoo.it/2kOZOWE" target="_blank">race for the West’s eighth and final playoff spot</a>, led to some idle speculation about what kind of fireworks we might see in an opening-round postseason matchup between the No. 1-seeded Warriors and No. 8-seeded Nuggets.</p><p> <strong>[<a href="http://bit.ly/2dMrm8p" target="_blank">Join a Yahoo Daily Fantasy Basketball contest now</a> | <a href="http://bit.ly/2eiyfio" target="_blank">Free NBA Yahoo Cup entry</a>]</strong></p><p> As <a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/news/shorthanded-nuggets-crush-warriors-with-record-tying-24-three-pointers-064822516.html" target="_blank">our Eric Freeman wrote</a> Monday night, “Golden State would certainly be the favorite to win that series in four or five games, but the prospect of a few shootouts should get neutrals excited.” It certainly got one Nuggets partisan amped enough to share his anticipation with Warriors star Kevin Durant as he exited the court after the defeat … and you’re not going to believe this, but the former NBA Most Valuable Player was not as enthused as the fan:</p><p style="margin-left: 20px"> <a href="https://twitter.com/ScottHastings" target="_blank">@ScottHastings</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/espn" target="_blank">@espn</a> "Yeah, we'll sweep your ass!" Will they??? <a href="https://t.co/1EZzCa29Kc" target="_blank">pic.twitter.com/1EZzCa29Kc</a></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">— Brandyn Binkley (@BinkDogg40) <a href="https://twitter.com/BinkDogg40/status/831379997227098112" target="_blank">February 14, 2017</a></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p><p> “See you in the playoffs!” the fan says.</p><p> “Yeah, we’ll sweep your ass,” replies Durant, who is evidently not a believer in the <a href="https://twitter.com/mrgordian/status/323826464082509824?lang=en" target="_blank">Gentleman’s Sweep</a>.</p><p> <strong>[Follow Ball Don’t Lie on social media: <a href="https://twitter.com/YahooBDL/" target="_blank">Twitter</a> | <a href="https://www.instagram.com/yahooballdontlie/" target="_blank">Instagram</a> | <a href="https://www.facebook.com/BallDontLie/" target="_blank">Facebook</a> | <a href="http://bit.ly/1FaFunr" target="_blank">Tumblr</a>]</strong></p><p> Durant led the way for the Warriors with 25 points on 10-for-16 shooting in just under 27 minutes, but that scoring barely mattered on <a href="http://www.cbssports.com/nba/news/one-of-those-nights-nuggets-thrive-behind-jokic-as-warriors-hit-last-years-loss-total/" target="_blank">“one of those nights”</a> that saw the best team in the NBA trail for the final 45 minutes, allow 42 points in the first quarter and at no point threaten serious contention. As he and other Warriors, including head coach Steve Kerr, said after the game, the outcome of the third and final meeting between these two clubs (Golden State won the <a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/golden-state-warriors-denver-nuggets-2016111007/" target="_blank">first</a> <a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/denver-nuggets-golden-state-warriors-2017010209/" target="_blank">two</a>) scarcely seemed to be in doubt once a Warriors*squad finishing both a four-games-in-six-nights stretch and a three-game road trip at altitude after an <a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/news/drama-overshadows-blowout-in-kevin-durants-1st-game-back-in-okc-053907344.html" target="_blank">emotional Saturday night triumph</a> in Oklahoma City started seeing Denver fill up the bucket in the early going.</p><p> “You get your rhythm and then [Jamal] Murray comes in and hits some stepback 3s, Jameer Nelson rattles some in, Will Barton stepping back and hitting 3s,” Durant said, according to <a href="http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/02/13/nuggets-mash-sluggish-warriors-132-110-in-letdown-loss-in-denver/" target="_blank">Anthony Slater of the Bay Areas News Group</a>. “Then the crowd’s into it and everyone feels good.”</p><p> Including, it seems, the fans … though, if their paths cross again come April and KD gets his way,*not for long.</p><p> <strong>More NBA coverage:</strong></p><p> </p><p style="text-align: center"><em>– – – – – – –</em></p><p><strong><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/author/dan-devine/" target="_blank">Dan Devine</a></strong> is an editor for <a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nba-ball-dont-lie/" target="_blank"><strong>Ball Don’t Lie</strong></a> on Yahoo Sports. Have a tip? Email him at <a href="mailto:devine@yahoo-inc.com">devine@yahoo-inc.com</a> or follow him on Twitter!</p><p> <a href="https://twitter.com/YourManDevine" target="_blank">Follow @YourManDevine</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="admin, post: 3393552, member: 1"] [IMG]http://l.yimg.com/os/en/homerun/feed_manager_auto_publish_494/5294b155056b6204961a38e95d28918c[/IMG]If only Kevin Durant had been wearing his trusty headphones after the game, too. (Getty Images) The Denver Nuggets incinerated the Golden State Warriors on Monday night, burying the league-leading Dubs beneath an [URL="http://sports.yahoo.com/news/shorthanded-nuggets-crush-warriors-with-record-tying-24-three-pointers-064822516.html"]NBA-record-tying 24 3-pointers[/URL] en route to a convincing [URL="http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/golden-state-warriors-denver-nuggets-2017021307/"]132-110 win[/URL]. The victory opened some eyes to just how potent the Nuggets’ offense can be when it’s cooking — Denver now ranks ninth in the NBA in offensive efficiency, scoring a stellar 109 points per 100 possessions — and, with the 25-30 Nuggets sitting two games ahead of the Portland Trail Blazers and Sacramento Kings in the [URL="https://yhoo.it/2kOZOWE"]race for the West’s eighth and final playoff spot[/URL], led to some idle speculation about what kind of fireworks we might see in an opening-round postseason matchup between the No. 1-seeded Warriors and No. 8-seeded Nuggets. [B][[URL="http://bit.ly/2dMrm8p"]Join a Yahoo Daily Fantasy Basketball contest now[/URL] | [URL="http://bit.ly/2eiyfio"]Free NBA Yahoo Cup entry[/URL]][/B] As [URL="http://sports.yahoo.com/news/shorthanded-nuggets-crush-warriors-with-record-tying-24-three-pointers-064822516.html"]our Eric Freeman wrote[/URL] Monday night, “Golden State would certainly be the favorite to win that series in four or five games, but the prospect of a few shootouts should get neutrals excited.” It certainly got one Nuggets partisan amped enough to share his anticipation with Warriors star Kevin Durant as he exited the court after the defeat … and you’re not going to believe this, but the former NBA Most Valuable Player was not as enthused as the fan: [INDENT] [URL="https://twitter.com/ScottHastings"]@ScottHastings[/URL] [URL="https://twitter.com/espn"]@espn[/URL] "Yeah, we'll sweep your ass!" Will they??? [URL="https://t.co/1EZzCa29Kc"]pic.twitter.com/1EZzCa29Kc[/URL] — Brandyn Binkley (@BinkDogg40) [URL="https://twitter.com/BinkDogg40/status/831379997227098112"]February 14, 2017[/URL] [/INDENT] “See you in the playoffs!” the fan says. “Yeah, we’ll sweep your ass,” replies Durant, who is evidently not a believer in the [URL="https://twitter.com/mrgordian/status/323826464082509824?lang=en"]Gentleman’s Sweep[/URL]. [B][Follow Ball Don’t Lie on social media: [URL="https://twitter.com/YahooBDL/"]Twitter[/URL] | [URL="https://www.instagram.com/yahooballdontlie/"]Instagram[/URL] | [URL="https://www.facebook.com/BallDontLie/"]Facebook[/URL] | [URL="http://bit.ly/1FaFunr"]Tumblr[/URL]][/B] Durant led the way for the Warriors with 25 points on 10-for-16 shooting in just under 27 minutes, but that scoring barely mattered on [URL="http://www.cbssports.com/nba/news/one-of-those-nights-nuggets-thrive-behind-jokic-as-warriors-hit-last-years-loss-total/"]“one of those nights”[/URL] that saw the best team in the NBA trail for the final 45 minutes, allow 42 points in the first quarter and at no point threaten serious contention. As he and other Warriors, including head coach Steve Kerr, said after the game, the outcome of the third and final meeting between these two clubs (Golden State won the [URL="http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/golden-state-warriors-denver-nuggets-2016111007/"]first[/URL] [URL="http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/denver-nuggets-golden-state-warriors-2017010209/"]two[/URL]) scarcely seemed to be in doubt once a Warriors*squad finishing both a four-games-in-six-nights stretch and a three-game road trip at altitude after an [URL="http://sports.yahoo.com/news/drama-overshadows-blowout-in-kevin-durants-1st-game-back-in-okc-053907344.html"]emotional Saturday night triumph[/URL] in Oklahoma City started seeing Denver fill up the bucket in the early going. “You get your rhythm and then [Jamal] Murray comes in and hits some stepback 3s, Jameer Nelson rattles some in, Will Barton stepping back and hitting 3s,” Durant said, according to [URL="http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/02/13/nuggets-mash-sluggish-warriors-132-110-in-letdown-loss-in-denver/"]Anthony Slater of the Bay Areas News Group[/URL]. “Then the crowd’s into it and everyone feels good.” Including, it seems, the fans … though, if their paths cross again come April and KD gets his way,*not for long. [B]More NBA coverage:[/B] [CENTER][I]– – – – – – –[/I][/CENTER] [B][URL="http://sports.yahoo.com/author/dan-devine/"]Dan Devine[/URL][/B] is an editor for [URL="http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nba-ball-dont-lie/"][B]Ball Don’t Lie[/B][/URL] on Yahoo Sports. Have a tip? Email him at [EMAIL="devine@yahoo-inc.com"]devine@yahoo-inc.com[/EMAIL] or follow him on Twitter! [URL="https://twitter.com/YourManDevine"]Follow @YourManDevine[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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