Durant in playoffs big risk: Williams

Jay Williams doesn’t think it’s the smartest idea, but his buddy Kevin Durant has defied the odds before.

Nets GM Sean Marks finally left the door open to Durant returning from an Achilles tendon tear in time for a potential playoff tournament in July if the NBA season resumes.

“That’s a $110 million question,” Marks said Sunday. “I just don’t know how coming out of this pandemic will affect anybody, let alone Kevin.’’

Williams, an ESPN NBA analyst who also hosts “The Boardroom” with Durant, feels it could be too risky, going from one year off to a playoff cauldron.

Durant had progressed to three-on-three games when the coronavirus pandemic shut the league down. He had been resigned to returning next October for the 2020-21 season. Now Durant could be getting antsy since the 2020-21 season may not commence until Dec. 25.

Williams is concerned the playoff event would feature few off days. The Nets are in seventh place in the East and Kyrie Irving (shoulder surgery) is done for the season.

“I think everybody’s antsy,’’ Williams told The Post. “As it relates to Kevin, it depends on the timetable of those games and how condensed it is. It’s one thing to come back and start the beginning of next season where there’s time and space between games and [you can] keep your body ramped up the right way. But someone coming back off an injury and go right into a playoff scenario, I don’t think it’s feasible or fair on Kevin himself. But Kevin is his own man. He’ll do what he wants to do.”

The good news is Durant was in excellent condition in March, dazzling in those informal three-on-three matches.

“He is working out and feels great which is really good to hear,’’ Williams said. “One of the best players in the world to feel he can go is incredible. The question is the [playoff] timetable that nobody knows.”