Nets win despite missing Kevin Durant, Kyrie Irving and their other 5 top scorers
No Kevin Durant, no Kyrie Irving, no problem for the Brooklyn Nets.
Excuse me, that should actually be no Kevin Durant, no Kyrie Irving, no Ben Simmons, no Seth Curry, no Nic Claxton, no Joe Harris, no T.J. Warren, no Royce O'Neale, no problem. Because that's how the Nets won on Saturday.
Missing their entire starting lineup and three of their four top bench players by minutes per game, the Nets somehow managed to defeat the Indiana Pacers 136-133 on the road....
The list goes on. Every Net in the starting lineup save for guard Edmond Sumner was making his first start of the season, and the bench only extended to four players due to the number of absences.
Yes, they were playing the Pacers, but the Pacers are 14-13 and unlike Nets, were playing their starters. The Pacers were favored by 7.5 points at BetMGM. So you can understand why the Nets players, active and inactive, were treating the win like a massive upset
The Nets' outlook was so bleak that head coach Jacque Vaughn was apologizing before the game, as nearly every player was held out due to injury management....
You're right - I didn't read the article, but was attracted by the headline. Speaking of headlines, they used to be a brief summary of the article and the skill involved was to be as clear and concise as possible within a limited word-count. Now they're almost all written as click-bait, often misleading and even more often just refusing to disclose the articles' information. Instead of "Auburn beats LSU", it's "Auburn does this" or even worse, "Fans Reaction When Auburn Does This"
that it's taken 5 years and that the bribes aren't even against the rules anymore.
I can't really see it, but:
Good on him!