Boston Celtics Blast by Brooklyn Nets

“Again, I don’t know that he’ll start or come off the bench as we move forward, but he played well and did a lot of good things and if somebody else is in that role, we’ll need them to lift us like he is”, said Stevens. And they’ve got some inexperienced guys that go really hard, so they made a few mistakes and we made a few buckets. “Wait, that was wrong wasn’t it?” The Nets turned it over on 19 separate occasions, making it hard for them to sustain any consistent presence on that end of the floor. Lee had a feeling the Warriors would pull out a win once they cut the deficit to 10. “We haven’t had anybody put up 30 points yet”. The team is now 14-0 after last night’s win over the Chicago Bulls. Williams’ 3-pointer helped the Mavs to a 95-87 lead with two minutes left as he made sure his former team wasn’t going to get the best of his current team. “Golden State, their level of confidence right now is awesome”.

BOSTON- Avery Bradley scored 21 points and Isaiah Thomas added 18 points and nine assists to lead the Boston Celtics over the Brooklyn Nets 120-95 on Friday night.

The Celtics will face the Warriors for the first time this season on December 11 in Boston, followed by a West Coast visit April 1. He will keep tabs on the Warriors in the meantime, but he will stay out of their rivalries and focus on the Celtics’ competition. “I loved my time in Utah and everything the Jazz organization did for me and I miss it there”.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Center Al Jefferson had his third double-double of the season with 26 points and 10 rebounds, and the Charlotte Hornets rolled to an easy 113-88 victory over the winless Philadelphia 76ers Friday night.

Williams rejected a free-agent offer from the Mavericks in July 2012 to stay with the Brooklyn Nets. The leftover sting from Wednesday guaranteed that nothing would be blown this time – certainly not against a team with the struggles of the 2-11 Nets.

So the fans in Boston took extra pleasure in Friday’s win, and are looking forward to another chance tonight, when the Nets host the Celtics in Brooklyn.

Don’t expect either coach, however, to look any deeper than a regular season result.

“We’ve had a number of games where we’ve been close and we had an opportunity to finish them out and didn’t finish them out”.

“That was a disappointing performance”, Nets coach Lionel Hollins said.

“I didn’t think [the Nets] were going to be this bad”, said John Bone, a high school senior who lives in Dorchester, Mass. “But I’m happy”. “I think about more what we do daily, the foundation that we lay”. There’s always second round picks that are traded. Unfortunately though, health is a concern for one of their top players, Marcus Smart, who is in his second season. Of course, Exum, Utah’s first round pick in 2014, was lost for the season in early August, when he tore his ACL playing for his native Australia in a meaningless, global exhibition matchup against Slovenia.

The most entertaining play of the first half occurred with Pachulia smack in the middle of it. With the Mavs ahead 42-35, Pachulia grabbed an offensive rebound, muscled his way while dribbling through two Jazz players, and then hit a cutting Wesley Matthews for a layup.