Here’s something you’ll see in Summer League that you’re unlikely to see in the upcoming NBA season: a Nets victory over the Knicks.
The Knicks dropped their second straight Las Vegas Summer League game, this time blowing an 18-point first-half lead in a 92-85 loss to their cross-bridge rival on Tuesday afternoon.
They have fallen to 0-2 after Saturday’s loss to the Charlotte Hornets and now have two more games left: Wed., July 17 against the Sacramento Kings, then Fri., July 19 against the Detroit Pistons.
The Knicks got off to a hot start on Tuesday but turned the ball over 20 times and could not recover after the Nets surged back into the game both at the end of the second half and the top of the third quarter, using intensity and timely three-point shooting to ultimately take their first lead of the game on a Jacob Gilyard three at the 7:12 mark of the fourth quarter.