Neither the Brooklyn Nets nor the Toronto Raptors were looking for much when they trotted into the Barclays Center tonight.
With everyone else having reserved their seats by now, both teams knew the NBA playoff bus would soon be taking off without them. It may have felt like one at times given the back-and-forth nature, but tonight’s game was no truly competitive contest in terms of what an NBA team’s goal should be. It was merely a basketball game that just so happened to be played at the corner of Atlantic and Flatbush.