It was Kevin Durant’s trade request that officially ended the Nets’ most recent window of contention. Now that they’ve finally started a rebuild two years later, Durant has watched from afar and said he can see it heading in the right direction.

Kevin Durant is proud of what he believed the Nets were building in Brooklyn before “dysfunction” brought it quickly crashing down. Durant, Kyrie Irving and James Harden played just 16 games together and their tenure became better known for the chaos off the court than the brilliant basketball they delivered on it.

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The Nets are coming off a 99-95 loss to the New York Knicks on Tuesday in which Brooklyn came back from a 13-point deficit to make the game close enough in the end to keep everybody in Barclays Center on their toes.

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