NEW YORK — The Brooklyn Nets welcomed the New York Knicks to Barclays Center on Wednesday in the Battle of the Boroughs and lost 121-102.
For the Nets, Cam Johnson had 20 points and four rebounds while Cam Thomas had 20 points and five assists. Mikal Bridges had 15 points and Spencer Dinwiddie had 10 points.
For the Knicks, Julius Randle had 26 points and seven rebounds while Donte DiVincenzo had 23 points and eight rebounds. Immanuel Quickley had 19 points off the bench and Jalen Brunson had 16 points.
In the first half, it was a tale of two quarters for the Nets as nothing went right for them in the first quarter before they turned things around in the second quarter. Even though the Knicks had just two centers in Isaiah Hartenstein and Taj Gibson, the Nets struggled with the physicality of Julius Randle. Brooklyn turned things around in the second period and it seems that they started waking up by closing the first half down 60-51.
In the second half, the Nets managed to get within nine points in the third quarter and after that, the bottom fell out for them. Brooklyn looked like they did in the beginning of the game where they couldn’t find anything consistent on either end of the floor and this game became a absolute blowout in the fourth quarter.
Here are your Nets player grades following Wednesday’s loss: