The Brooklyn Nets played their penultimate game of the season on Friday night, their final road outing. It came against a Minnesota Timberwolves team that, despite having played the night before, needed the game for playoff-seeding purposes. Brooklyn had also played the night before, though it was a completely non-competitive loss, and even more regulars would be out on Friday night than Thursday.
No Ziaire Williams, D’Angelo Russell, Nic Claxton, Day’Ron Sharpe, nor Cam Johnson, in addition to the guys already (officially) ruled out for the season.
Though the Philadelphia 76ers finished losing their game to the Atlanta Hawks — locking the Brooklyn Nets into the sixth-best NBA Draft Lottery odds — during the first quarter of Brooklyn’s game, the team has moved past such motivations.