Durant ‘up in the air’ on Barclays return

The summer of 2019 was supposed to be the beginning of something big here in Downtown Brooklyn.

Nets general manager Sean Marks got Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving to commit to bringing Flatbush Avenue its first championship parade since the Dodgers beat the hated Yankees in 1955.

Instead, three-plus seasons produced a single playoff series win — the same amount won by Brooklyn’s original star-studded roster featuring Brook Lopez, Deron Williams, Joe Johnson, Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce.

“The people that follow the Brooklyn Nets, they understood what we went through and those little moments that we had and shared as a team that the fans rallied around,” Durant said ahead of his much-anticipated return to the Barclays Center hardwood Wednesday night.

“Hopefully, they can remember that stuff,” added Durant.

The two-time NBA Finals Most Valuable Player as a member of the Golden State Warriors came here to bring this franchise its first-ever title. But he and Irving were jettisoned to Phoenix and Dallas, respectively, last February.

This will be Durant’s first visit to the corner of Atlantic and Flatbush as a member of the Suns (27-20), who will ride into Brooklyn off Monday’s 118-105 victory in Miami.

Durant scored 20 points, handed out seven assists, grabbed eight rebounds and blocked a pair of shots against the Heat. He put up 27 points on 9-of-18 shooting in his first reunion with the Nets this year, but Brooklyn came away with a 116-112 triumph in Phoenix on Dec. 13.

A month and a half later, Durant admittedly isn’t sure what type of reception he’ll get from the Barclays faithful on Wednesday.

Will it be an appreciative applause for his years here?

Or will it be a chorus of boos for his lack of wanting to stay in our borough and making trade demands the summer before he was…