In some ways, this wasn’t, or at least shouldn’t have been, at all startling. The Nets were down 2–0 in the series, thanks to a close loss in a beautifully played, magnificently competitive Game One, and also to a pair of lacklustre performances by Durant and his unspeakably more erratic sidekick, Kyrie Irving, in Game Two. On Saturday night, I went to Game Three, hoping to see some of the dependable Durantian magic. This steadiness-held in and symbolized by those winglike shoulders-is why, for me, it was so unsettling to watch Durant look so wobbly during the Nets’ first-round matchup against the surging Boston Celtics. (Milwaukee went on to win the game in overtime.)
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#Kd wingspan series#
In that series against the Bucks, he averaged more than thirty-five points, ten rebounds, and five assists per contest and, in Game Seven, played what might have been the best individual game of his life, notching forty-eight points, nine rebounds, six assists, one steal, and one block in fifty-three minutes, without rest-and hitting a last-second shot that would’ve won the series for Brooklyn had his foot not been a centimetre or two over the three-point line.
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Even in losing efforts-as when, last year, his Nets fell to the Milwaukee Bucks in the second round-he has generally delivered a kind of workaday brilliance. Durant has been so good at basketball for so long that it’s never a surprise to see him succeed. Something in those shoulders and in the set of the neck, in the sign of unashamed age suggested by the unhidden bald spot, gave an impression of the unflappable calm that comes only by way of long-sustained excellence. It took me a second or two to realize that this was the Brooklyn Nets superstar Kevin Durant, whom Erizku photographed on assignment for the Times Magazine.īy now, he’s about as famous-and, therefore, as compulsively and thoroughly photographed-as an athlete can get, but the Erizku photograph, which totally absents his face, gave me a new way to think about Durant. Around his neck was a gold chain, and on his back was an N.B.A.
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He had high, broad shoulders and a short spit of a neck.
#Kd wingspan skin#
The man’s hair thinned gradually, leaving an island of bare skin toward the crown. I was drawn immediately to a picture at the back of the room: an electric-yellow background framing the back of a Black male head. The pictures were illuminated by light boxes, so they glowed with a subtle pulse in the darkly painted room where they hung. Last month, I went to a small exhibition of new photographs by the artist Awol Erizku.