The Brooklyn Nets hope you enjoyed their feisty, Tuesday night loss to their cross-river rival, the New York Knicks, on national television. Because Wednesday night would be a return to eye-bleeding basketball.
D’Angelo Russell was out with injury management, dealing with left hammy tightness with Brooklyn on the second night of a back-to-back, and Cam Johnson jammed up his ankle again on Tuesday night. No Cam Thomas nor Trendon Watford, still.
The stupefying question of how the Brooklyn Nets were going to score 100 points on Wednesday night against the Phoenix Suns was, again, answered quite simply: They weren’t.