B/R AM: KD's New Doomed Superteam

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Stop us if you've heard this before:

• Kevin Durant is really, really good

• Kevin Durant's hand-picked superteam is evolving on the darkest timeline

The 2023-24 Suns are unfolding like KD's other post-Warriors teams: Underwhelming record-wise and even worse availability-wise.

• They're 14-13 and 10th in the West after a terrible loss to Portland on Tuesday. No post-GSW KD team has won 50 games. 

• The KD-Harden-Kyrie combo in Brooklyn played 16 games together. So far, the KD-Booker-Beal combo has played 2 games (and 24 minutes) together. 

Either Phoenix gets healthy and turns its season around, or the Durant toe-on-the-line game in 2021 turns into a bigger what if by the day.

THURSDAY'S HEADLINES

➤ *More* Jim Harbaugh violations

➤ Early National Signing Day grades

➤ NFL investigating Bucs

➤ Ant was so close to an Embiid poster

➤ Nebraska lands No. 1 QB

GUESS THE NBA PLAYER 

CLUE 1: Most made 3s in one game (14)

• Steph Curry
• Dame Lillard
• Klay Thompson
• Kobe Bryant
  

WHAT WE'RE WATCHING TONIGHT

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🏈 Thursday Night Football

• Saints at Rams
• Amazon, 8:15 PM ET
• Both teams in playoff picture

🎓 Boca Raton Bowl

• USF vs. Syracuse
• ESPN, 8 PM ET

🏀 NBA Thursday

• NO at CLE (7:30 PM ET)
• SAS at CHI (8 PM ET)
• ORL at MIL (8 PM ET)
• LAC at OKC (8 PM ET)
• LAL at MIN (NBA TV, 9 PM ET)

ONE LAST THING

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From the depths of Zillow: There's a house for sale in Green Bay, WI. which essentially has Lambeau Field as its front yard. It has four beds, two baths, one pool, and zero offers.

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