One core lesson that most kids learn growing up is that sometimes, it doesn’t matter if you win or lose. What matters is the effort you give. Now that calculus changes when you’re a professional, doing things for money, sometimes it still applies.
The Nets carried this message to their fans and themselves Tuesday playing the game of basketball vs. the Denver Nuggets. Although they suffered a brutal 144-139 overtime loss, the Nets played well, even better than well, nonetheless. It took an all-world performance by the Joker (29 points, 16 assists, 18 rebounds) to bail out the Nuggets against an opponent who was supposed to be an inferior product.