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NEW YORK — Kevin Durant made his much-discussed return to Brooklyn on Wednesday, just shy of a year after the Nets traded him away as the final domino to fall in the franchise’s ill-fated “Big Three” era. The days leading up to Durant and his Phoenix Suns meeting the Nets at Barclays Center brought back memories of a Brooklyn superteam that failed to meet expectations, with Durant contending he didn’t deserve a tribute video or connect enough with the fans. But Nets coach Jacque Vaughn looked back fondly on his three and a half years with Durant. “In the world of negativity, it was a positive …

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