It was a good day for development but a bad one for playoff positioning.
Day’Ron Sharpe, on assignment from the Brooklyn Nets had an electrifying 30-point, 22-rebound and 4-block performance early Wednesday, but the Long Island Nets lost their third straight, to the Westchester Knicks, 118-113, in Bridgeport, Conn. The three-game losing streak followed a nine-game winning streak.
Long Island is now 16-11 and in the sixth and final seed for the post-season. They are two games ahead of the seventh seed. G League playoffs begin April 5.
Sharpe was later called back to Brooklyn and the 20-year-old has a chance to play in both a G League game and NBA game in the same day, a relatively common experience now that many of the G League teams are located close to their parent clubs.