The Brooklyn Nets were winners Tuesday night for the second straight game, which makes the Morning Dish a much happier plate to serve.
For Nets forward Jared Dudley, the game was a homecoming. Dudley played the last two seasons in Phoenix before being traded to Brooklyn as a salary dump after he turned down an offer from the Suns to buy out the final year and $9.5 million remaining on his contract.
The surprise for most observers isn’t that Dudley found a place in Brooklyn, but that it’s such a big one. Dudley started Tuesday — his 11th consecutive start of the season — after being a forgotten man in the desert last season.