NEW YORK (AP) — The Los Angeles Clippers came to Brooklyn without their coach and many of their best players.
The Nets couldn’t convince themselves that LA’s patchwork lineup could beat them.
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“I mean, it’s natural when a team is missing so many players. They’ve been going through so much over there and you relax,” Kevin Durant said. “You don’t think you could lose an NBA game like this.”
Brooklyn did.
Eric Bledsoe scored a season-high 27 points and the short-handed Clippers, playing on the second night of a back-to-back, rallied to beat the Nets 120-116 on Saturday night.