Maybe it took losing their top three players to convince the Nets to go from Brooklyn Glitz back to Brooklyn Grit. But it’s actually working.
Kyrie Irving is going to miss at least the three-game road trip that starts Sunday against the Knicks in the Garden, and Kevin Durant and Caris LeVert will be out longer than that. So the shorthanded Nets have had to try to grind out defensive-minded victories, yet they will come across the East River having won three of four.
“This is the way we’re going to have to win games, especially right now with two of our leading scorers out in Ky and Caris,” Garrett Temple said.