After winning 16 straight games in the G League — two short of the single-season record, the Long Island Nets fell to the Maine Celtics Sunday in Portland, 121-112. Long Island still leads the Eastern Conference standings and with a 3.5-game lead and six to play, they’re likely to go into the G League playoffs as the No. 1 seed.
The Nets were down most of the game and in the third quarter, the Celtics sprinted ahead by 22 in a game where physicality reined.
The physicality ramped up in the third, matching the intensity from Thursday’s nail-biting Long Island win as Treveon Graham was ejected.