Durant’s being swarmed on every offensive possession, his airspace completely eradicated by multiple long and athletic Celtic bodies. His lethal pull-up shooting and creativity as a scorer has been mucked up by an incredibly aggressive Celtics defense that has consistently appeared as if it’s thinking two steps ahead. His 25 points on 31.7 percent shooting and 28.6 percent from three, along with just 4 assists and 6 turnovers per game would be the worst of his 14-year career. Kevin Durant has not had a good showing against the Boston Celtics, his Nets reeling while down 2-0 in the first-round series. His sense of invincibility that once protected his nation’s people has been tested, attacked, and thus far, defeated. The proud leader of the Nets World, its creator just one year ago, has proven to be mortal. What’s been at the epicenter of this epic collapse? Even the cities themselves-emboldened by its brazen street art, the words “Bed-Stuy” and “BKLYN” sprayed permanently on the walls of city buildings-have begun to crumble into dust. The oceans, flushed with a mixture of colorful tie-dye blues, have been polluted so incessantly that those radiant colors have washed away into the depths of the ocean floor.
Its grassy fields have all but died out after a cold hard winter-the bright yellow, blue, and red summer flowers that once meshed together like a Basquiat painting have wilted away into a sea of brown. A once-abundant superplanet is on its last legs, imploding from within-its core collapsing-after the war against its green and black-clad foe. It’s looking desolate in the Nets World right now.