Underneath a sea of celebratory banners, those gutsy red and navy New Jersey colors, and of course, a newly hung up No. 15 in the Barclays Center, the Brooklyn Nets did battle with the Miami Heat this evening.
While the pageantry that came with Vince Carter’s number retirement operated like a much-needed sedative pill, allowing us all to forget about Brooklyn’s lottery odds, phantom injuries, Cam Thomas’ pending free agency, and even their record, the game carried on nonetheless, as it always does.
Today’s involved Brooklyn trading blows with one of the East’s more curious teams. Looking at the Heat is like looking in a mirror and through the window of a two-year time machine’s chamber for the Nets.