suffered a "setback" with his hamstring rehab yesterday and is "back to square one" according to steve nash. he had that thousand yard stare on the sidelines for most of yesterday's game against NOP *and* it's james harden who likes to play big minutes so i'm disinclined to believe any notions of BKN resting him via air quotes "injury" until the playoffs. this is probably a NBA title dream-killer for BKN unless he can somehow recover and fully rehab in a month or so. i think the best case scenario is that BKN gets a favorable matchup in round 1 and harden can come back just before or during round 2

the good news is BKN is still winning games without harden or KD. kyrie was lights out in the 4th against NOP. it feels like the team is truly well-meshed. shamet has been great over the past few games. uncle jeff is still trying to dunk on everyone. bruce brown makes a few pat bev/marcus smart-style "winning basketball" plays every game. the games are almost always close and decided in the last minute or so because BKN still can't defend consistently but they seem to be able to score and get stops when it really counts