Well, that was refreshing. After 11 straight losses and a monumental trade, the Nets blew out the Kings by 24 Monday without Kevin Durant, Kyrie Irving and either James Harden or Ben Simmons. Instead, it was the other acquisitions from the Harden-for-Simmons trade who provided the heroics. Seth Curry scored 23 and Andre Drummond finished one point short of a double-double while rendering Domantas Sabonis irrelevant with help from LaMarcus Aldridge who himself was coming back from an ankle sprain. All was good in NetsWorld, at least for the moment.
The opponent tonight will be the New York Knicks, who have lost 12 of their last 15 and fell to the tanking Oklahoma City Thunder Monday, a defeat so ignominious that rumors are now flying that Thibodeau.