Nets finish brutal Western trip with loss to Jazz as Cam Johnson exits early
NY Post
SALT LAKE CITY — This Western road swing is mercifully over for the Nets.
They’re coming back to Brooklyn battered and bruised.
And thoroughly beaten up.
The Nets got throttled 125-108 by the Jazz before a sellout crowd of 18,206 at Delta Center on Monday night.
And they didn’t just lose the game but some of their pride, outworked, outhustled and outmuscled by a team they know they should’ve defeated.
“We just needed to take more pride defensively,” center Nic Claxton said. “Just keeping those guys in front of us, just straight line drives again are too easy, which is causing us to rotate too much and it’s giving them rebounds, 3s. So I think it’s just a pride thing, honestly.”
PHOENIX — Wednesday brought some cautiously optimistic updates for the Knicks frontcourt.
The Greatest Escape in franchise history was perpetrated by Glen Sather, when the general manager extricated himself and the Rangers from the final five years of Scott Gomez’s contract by moving the $7,357,143-per-year center to Montreal on June 30, 2009 after two years in New York.
The Yankees publicly are on the same page: Hal Steinbrenner, like Brian Cashman and Aaron Boone before him, said that issues with the club’s fundamentals did not hover over the team all season.
The first day of the rest of Daniel Jones’ dwindling time with the Giants arrived Wednesday, with Jones in the building, in the meetings, on the practice field (although not doing very much) and not at all part of the game plan for the next game, relegated to a non-participant role for the remainder of the season.
There will be a little extra magic for Knicks-Spurs on Christmas Day.
The quickest way for the Giants to climb out of quarterback hell is also the quickest way to extend their stay there for at least three more years.
The Lakers’ decision to keep Bronny James away from G League road games has sparked some debate about the level of preferential treatment the franchise is giving to LeBron’s son.
VANCOUVER, British Columbia — The Rangers continue to flex their strength on the road this season.
One of Tom Thibodeau’s stated points of emphasis for the Knicks this season — to increase their volume of 3-point attempts to take advantage of their proficiency from the outside — is starting to come to fruition.
VANCOUVER, British Columbia — It’s the best-case scenario for Filip Chytil and the Rangers.