Watanabe will enter the game Sunday at Detroit shooting 19-for-26 (.731) from the corner.
DETROIT — The Nets have two of the NBA’s three most accurate active 3-point shooters: Seth Curry and Joe Harris. But it’s their teammate, Yuta Watanabe, who has become King of the Corner 3.
“Everything, everything is easier for me, because I think all the corner 3s I made [Friday] I was just standing there,” Watanabe said. “Like, I wasn’t moving, I wasn’t finding a spot. As soon as we got the ball, I just run to the corner, wait, wait, wait and then they gave me great passes. So I’m just glad they’re my teammates.
“I took my time, got my balance underneath me, which is something I want to work on from this day on, just having my balance underneath me on my 3s,” Irving said. “I haven’t been shooting the 3 ball as well as I would have liked this season, so just trying to continue to improve every game.” Kevin Durant, with 26,394 points, has moved within one of John Havlicek for 17th place on the all-time NBA scoring list, and within three of Paul Pierce at 16th. He’s also 102 shy of Tim Duncan for 15th.
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