Nets allow final 22 points in brutal implosion against James Harden, Clippers
NY Post
LOS ANGELES — As implosions go, this one was nuclear.
The Nets turned a double-digit lead over the Clippers with just over five minutes left into a 125-114 defeat, a sad on-court capitulation before a sellout crowd of 19,370 at Crypto.com Arena that included team owner Joe Tsai.
The e-commerce billionaire saw his team allow the final 22 points in a collapse that wasn’t just horrible, but historic.
If his mood had been dampened over the past month or two, Sunday sure won’t help.
“Lessons to be learned,” Cam Thomas said. “That first half and the third quarter, that’s how we want to play. And in the fourth quarter, we can look at it like this is not how we want to play, because they just turned up on us. It was like 41-15. It was crazy. It was a crazy run. But it’s always gut-wrenching when you give up a lead like that in just one quarter.”
The Nets had never trailed, and led 114-103 after a Mikal Bridges layup off a Thomas feed with 5:33 to play.
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Victor Robles put his body on the line to make an impressive catch on Sunday, but had to be carted off the field because of it.
It’s not every day that someone is chirping at the baby-faced assassin – let alone an opposing coach.
There will be enough time to obsess over the things the Knicks don’t have, and why they don’t do well. Bank on that. There will be acres of space and hours of conversation devoted to the vast chasm between where the Knicks are and where they want to be — and, perhaps more tellingly, where they were expected to be. That’s coming, don’t worry.
Peter Laviolette chuckled as a grin started to spread across his face.
David Peterson bent over behind the mound in Sunday’s fifth inning, giving the appearance of perhaps a back ailment.
New Jets coach Aaron Glenn will stand in front of his team on Monday as the Jets begin their offseason program.
He will be tempting, of course, because by the time all is said and done, Kevin Durant will be on the short list of the greatest players in NBA history. Top 10? Maybe. Top 20? For sure.
So, another game like this winds up in the void column, with a void of scoring accompanied by a void of emotion, and you can select which is the chicken and which is the egg in this scenario.
Carlos Mendoza thought about it.
ATLANTA — Clearly upset that he was pulled before he could get a triple-double, Josh Hart stormed off the court with 90 seconds remaining, but both he and coach Tom Thibodeau took the flare-up in stride.
If you think that winning two playoff series with John Tortorella behind the bench over the 12 years after he left Broadway in 2013 looks good on his résumé and is worth the angst that always accompanies one of his administrations, be my guest and by all means hire this coach who essentially fired himself again last week in Philadelphia.
PITTSBURGH — For a second straight game, Cody Bellinger was out of the Yankees’ lineup on Saturday.
SAN ANTONIO – “Why not?”