Great players put their teams on their backs and will them to victory, even when such a feat seems impossible. By that definition, D’Angelo Russell of the Brooklyn Nets has graduated into the pantheon of great players after what he did in the fourth quarter Tuesday in Sacramento.
Russell scored 27 points in the fourth quarter against the Sacramento Kings as the Nets pulled off a comeback for the ages, erasing a 28-point deficit in the final 13:16 of the game to stun the Kings at Golden 1 Center, 123-121.
Brooklyn pulled off the comeback with Russell leading one of the most unlikely 5-man units the Nets could throw out there.