Brooklyn Nets

The Brooklyn Nets are officially the third seed in the Eastern Conference. Brooklyn won its ninth-straight game to extend the longest active winning streak ...

Brooklyn entered the break with a 15-point lead, up 64-49, the largest halftime lead of the season on the road. “No disrespect to what you guys (the media) do, I just think the outside noise from the media and the fans just make it seem like we don’t care about the game or we are not focused on the task ahead. Still, Brooklyn struggled to score for most of the quarter with just 10 points until Jacque Vaughn put in a small-ball lineup of Durant, Irving, Warren, O’Neale, and Simmons to break the scoring drought. The Cavaliers opened the second quarter on a 11-6 run with Kevin Durant sitting to cut Brooklyn’s advantage to seven. Both were out Monday night in Cleveland, Curry with a non-COVID illness and Harris with continuing knee soreness that will keep him out at least through Wednesday night’s game with the Hawks, Warren was also exceptional off the bench, dropping a season-high 23 points on 9-of-14 shooting and a season-high 8 rebounds in 27 minutes (which was also a season-high). As Claxton noted of his former teammate post-game, “I’ve got a lot of experience playing against him,” referring to the season and a half the two played on the Nets. Fortunately, behind some absurd shotmaking from Royce O’Neale, Durant, and Warren, who hit a three and absurd and-1 finish, the Nets found their rhythm on offense. Brooklyn’s frontcourt, Simmons and Nic Claxton, started a combined 1-of-4 from the field against Cleveland’s ginormous duo of Evan Mobley and Jarrett Allen. The Nets’ streak is the longest winning streak in franchise history since 2005-06 — when Jacque Vaughn was the back-up point guard — and Brooklyn is a league-best 10-1 in the month of December. The win was also the team’s 20th since Vaughn took over the team in early November and the Nets were in 10th place. Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving each dropped 32 points, joining Boston’s Jaylen Brown and Jayson Tatum as the only pair of teammates to have five 30-point performances in the season game during this young NBA season.

Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving scored 32 points apiece as the Brooklyn Nets pushed their NBA winning streak to nine games Monday with a 125-117 victory over the ...

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The Bulls, who’d won three in a row to get their season back on track, had no answers for Alperen Sengun (24 points, 11 rebounds, six assists), Kevin Porter Jr. (26 points, seven rebounds, nine assists) and Jalen Green (24 points, six rebounds) on the defensive end. Brooklyn looked on from the opening tip, piling 34 points on the board in the first quarter to lead by 12 and take control of the match. Paul George scored seven of the Clippers’ 14 points and dished out two assists in overtime to lead his side to a big 142-121 victory over the Detroit Pistons. The Brooklyn Nets have downed Cleveland on the road 125-117 on Tuesday (all times AEDT) to extend their NBA-best winning streak to nine and take the Cavs’ spot in the East’s third seed. Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving combined for 64 points, TJ Warren added a season-high 23 off the bench and Ben Simmons racked up four points, nine rebounds, eight assists and three steals as the Nets continued their dominant run.

Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving scored 32 points each to help Nets extend their winning streak to its longest since 2005.

“Each day we try to gather as a team and think how we can get better,” he said. “I want to celebrate those small things, but keep pressing forward. They have won 14 of their last 15 games.

Brooklyn's NBA season-best winning streak has been extended to nine games after a 125-117 victory at Cleveland.

Warren contributed 23 points with Royce O’Neale, Nic Claxton and Yuta Watanabe all scoring 10. Kevin Durant scored 32 points before fouling out with 1 minute 54 seconds remaining, while Irving also had 32 points on 7-of-11 from outside. Darius Garland, with a game-high 46 points, and Donovan Mitchell combined for 61 points but the Cavs always chased the game, never leading after they were up 10-9.

Jacque Vaughn and Kevin Durant credit keeping things strictly "basketball" with helping turn around the Nets' season.

So it's not like, 'Man, finally we got the noise out of our locker room.' I just think we've always been locked in on basketball and trying to help us get this thing back on track." I'm just focused on being the best version of me and letting the results play out based on how well can you trust one another as a group." It's a fact that you don't have much to talk about outside of the game, so that's not adding to the discussion around our team." How we're going to take care of each other on the floor, cover for each other on the floor, it's about basketball." And hopefully not let anything interfere, any outside noise interfere with that, and our guys have done an unbelievable job of protecting each other and making this thing about basketball." Like we don't talk about this s---, we come in, go to work and go home.' There's more noise on the outside, to be honest, and it's been like that since day one. And whether that was the amount of time we spent in shootarounds, the amount of time we shaved [off] and kept our guys fresh, in order to give an extreme amount of effort when we play. "To be honest, I think we've always been about ball," Durant said after scoring 32 points in Monday's win. "I'm going to try and be as consistent as I possibly can with you every day," he told his team. I know the Kyrie stuff may be what you're talking about, but I feel like we've always been about the game, always." After getting off to a rocky start on the court, "From the outside looking in," Cavs coach J.B.