Brooklyn brought the heat late but it wasn’t enough.
The Nets lost to the Suns Saturday night, 113-107, in Brooklyn. With the loss, the Nets falls to 14-6 on the young season but are now only 4-6 against above .500 teams (4-6). Despite the disappointing loss, it’s the Nets' best start after 20 games in franchise history. Only the 1975-76 New York Nets of the ABA had as many wins in the first 20.
It was Phoenix’s 16th straight win and put them within a game of the Western Conference-leading Warriors who they play next.
A grand total of 18,071 fans — 339 of them standing room — were on hand, the largest crowd ever for a Nets game in their nine-year history in Brooklyn.