The Brooklyn Nets were debt collectors for an already lost cause last night. On a crisp Saturday evening, they welcomed in the Detroit Pistons, a team that knocked them off almost a month ago that very night and set them on a path that would lead to their early elimination from postseason contention.
Yesterday, Detroit found them at the end of that rocky trail, facing Brooklyn in what was their first throwaway game with the Atlanta Hawks having secured the final Play-In Tournament seed as the Nets finished up their last game vs the Pacers.