{"id":213,"date":"2024-02-02T17:56:57","date_gmt":"2024-02-02T17:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/?p=213"},"modified":"2024-02-02T17:57:23","modified_gmt":"2024-02-02T17:57:23","slug":"kevin-durant-and-the-wake-of-a-failed-superteam-howard-beck-the-ringer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/02\/kevin-durant-and-the-wake-of-a-failed-superteam-howard-beck-the-ringer\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cKevin Durant and the Wake of a Failed Superteam\u201d – Howard Beck (The Ringer)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u201cThere were maybe 150 people in the building that night, counting me. And it was weird as hell. As I wrote then, for Sports Illustrated: \u201cThe greatest player ever to pull on a Nets jersey made his Brooklyn debut Tuesday night, and the excitement was \u2026 not palpable.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It turns out, that profoundly strange introduction served as an omen of sorts. Things never did get much better, or more normal, or more palpable, during Durant\u2019s time in Brooklyn. The era could best be summed up with a shrug emoji and a two-word slogan: Shit happens<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cThere were maybe 150 people in the building that night, counting me. And it was weird as hell. As I wrote then, for Sports Illustrated: \u201cThe greatest player ever to pull on a Nets jersey made his Brooklyn debut Tuesday night, and the excitement was \u2026 not palpable.\u201d It turns out, that profoundly strange introduction…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"webmentions_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[5,3,4],"class_list":["post-213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links_read","tag-extract","tag-linksread","tag-mastodon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":214,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions\/214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}