All nine Brooklyn players scored at least six points as the Nets began the post-Kevin Durant era with a balanced attack to snap a two-game skid with a 116-105 win over the skidding Chicago Bulls Thursday night at Barclays Center.
Durant was traded to the Phoenix Suns in a stunning end of the superstar era in Brooklyn in the early hours of Thursday.
“I’m not going to sugarcoat it. It’s always difficult when you’re trading a player of that stature and that ilk,” Nets general manager Sean Marks said. “My job as GM and our job as a front office is to try and bring in that caliber of talent.