The Boston Celtics looked much better in the first half against the Nets than they did throughout their entire preseason matchup with Brooklyn. But one half of solid play isn’t going to cut it against the Nets, as Boston and the rest of the NBA learned on Christmas Day.
By walking away with a 123-95 win over the Celtics on Friday, the Nets became the first team since the 2008-09 Los Angeles Lakers to open up the season with back-to-back 20-plus-point wins. Kyrie Irving and Kevin Durant nearly combined for exactly half of the Nets’ scoring, finishing with 66 points as a pair.
Here are three things we learned from Brooklyn’s sizeable Christmas day win in Boston: