After missing nearly a month with a calf strain, Kevin Durant scored 21 points off the bench in first half to lead U.S. over Serbia.
VILLENEUVE-D’ASCQ, France — As he sat there in Pierre Mauroy Stadium , watching an opening tipoff from the bench in uniform for only the fourth time since high school, Kevin Durant kept thinking about one plain, humble objective. “When I come in,” he said, “don’t make the game about myself.” There was no chance of him succeeding at this. Maybe he could have pulled it off in an NBA preseason game in Sacramento , or on the second night of a mid-January back-to-back in Memphis .
His time in France is just beginning. But after missing all five of the Americans’ exhibitions with a calf injury? All he did Sunday was prove he’s still unguardable. “He’s the most skilled player I think I’ve ever seen,” Team USA head coach Steve Kerr said, and nobody was arguing with him. To be sure, the former Texas Longhorn wasn’t the only unguardable old guy the Americans had Sunday.
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