Touched in the knee once morest the Heat on the night of Sunday to Monday, Kevin Durant will be sidelined for at least two weeks, which might cause him to miss the game once morest the Lakers at the end of the month… and his direct confrontation with LeBron James. A duel between the two sacred monsters of the 2010s, which have not rubbed the pear since the end of 2018.
Time spares no one. Kevin Durant and LeBron James are no exception to the rule. Not spared from injury in recent seasons, the two superstars – who have amassed 6 league titles, as many Finals MVPs and 5 regular MVPs – faced each other for the last time on Christmas Day 2018. As a symbol of what was to follow, this confrontation ended prematurely with the King’s groin injury for long weeks. LBJ was playing his first season in Los Angeles, KD his last in Golden State. So in the same division, the two monsters had to face each other four times in 2018-19. In the end, they will only have crossed swords once.
What followed was a ruptured Achilles tendon for Durant during the 2019 Finals, followed by a move to Brooklyn that kicked off with a white 2019-20 season. These are also 2020-21 and 2021-22 exercises truncated by injuries for one AND for the other. So Kevin Durant and LeBron James have never faced each other under the colors of the Nets and the Lakers. Want to know the best? Even at the All-Star Game, Keke and BronBron have not had the opportunity to meet face-to-face since. In 2019, the two teamed up. In subsequent years, the Slim Reaper was still injured.
An anomaly therefore, while their duels are part of the mythical moments in the history of the Great League. One thinks of the titanic confrontations that the two engaged in during the NBA Finals or on the occasion of Christmas Days, when Warriors and Cavs disputed the ring. Later in time, there were also these Homeric battles between a Heat which dominated the League at the beginning of the last decade, and a young Thunder eager to undermine the hegemony of Florida.
But then, with KD uncertain for the encounter between the two superteams Nets and the Lakers at the end of January, when can we expect a reunion? Well, folks, we have good news for you. Kevin Durant and LeBron James are each leading the votes for the All-Star Game in their Conference today. Which means that the two OGs would be captains of their respective teams, and might as such, for the first time in more than four years, meet each other in an NBA match, especially since, for the t hour, there is no indication that either of them should miss the all-star game. Are you heading to Salt Lake City for a very high-flying duel?
Great gentlemen of the League’s past and present, LeBron James and Kevin Durant haven’t faced each other in over four years in the NBA. It might end soon during the All-Star Game, but time passes, the two players age, and each duel between the two monsters brings us inexorably closer to the end. Let’s take advantage of the little.
Source texte : Land of Basketball
