© Kyle Terada | 2019 Apr 7
After more than a year of anticipation, the Warriors and Kevin Durant will reunite on a basketball court.
The much anticipated matchup between Durant’s Nets and Golden State will take place in Brooklyn on Dec. 22, opening night for the new NBA season. It will be the first of a doubleheader that will also reportedly feature a matchup between the Lakers and Clippers.
The NBA’s tentative Dec. 22 opening night doubleheader on TNT: Nets vs. Warriors in Brooklyn and Lakers vs. Clippers in Los Angeles, sources tell @TheAthleticNBA @Stadium.
— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) December 2, 2020
Durant last played in an NBA game on June 10, 2019 as a member of the Warriors, tearing his Achilles tendon in a fateful Game 5 of the NBA Finals vs. the Raptors. The injury knocked him out for all of the 2019-20 season, his first with the Nets after deciding not the re-sign in Golden State last offseason.
Unfortunately, an Achilles injury also knocked out Klay Thompson for this season, meaning we will still have to wait on a matchup of Durant vs. the trio of Stephen Curry, Thompson and Draymond Green.
The game in Brooklyn will also feature a reunion with Steve Nash, the new Nets head coach who spent the last few seasons as a special assistant with the Warriors, often as a personal coach for Durant.