The Nets came up big on Biggie Night.
Brooklyn honored one of the borough’s favored sons, and Billboard’s greatest rapper of all time, when the Nets celebrated the late Notorious B.I.G. throughout the entire game. Then they beat the rival Knicks 120-112.
“Biggie Smalls was definitely in full effect in Brooklyn,’’ said Brooklyn-born Knicks star Carmelo Anthony.
This week marked the 20th anniversary of Biggie’s death, on March 9, 1997. But the Nets gave him a permanent banner in the rafters, played his music all night and had his mother, widow, children and even Sean “P.