Nail-biter in Portland
The Brooklyn Nets had a slow start to the 2019-20 season. It put them in a hole from the jump. Winnable games were slipping out of the Nets’ hands nightly.
Yet when Brooklyn made the trip to Portland to face a red-hot Damian Lillard, the Nets found a way to hang tight — and do something the 1984 New Jersey Nets did when they faced Bernard King on Christmas Day.