Nets get early-season lesson from Celtics in heartbreaking overtime loss
NY Post
BOSTON — The Nets respect the Celtics and how they play but aren’t trying to emulate or imitate the reigning champs as much as beat them and carve out their own winning identity.
Friday’s crusher was a tough lesson on the road, dropping a 108-104 overtime heartbreaker before a typically raucous sellout crowd of 19,156 at TD Garden.
The game was knotted at 94-all, 96-all, 98-all and, finall,y 100-all in overtime.
After Payton Pritchard’s free throws with 2:45 left put Boston ahead by two, Cam Thomas (team-high 31 points) knotted it again for the final time.
Jayson Tatum (33 points, nine rebounds, six assists) found Al Horford for a 3-pointer that made it 103-100. Dennis Schroder scored to pull the Nets within one, but Tatum’s short jumper padded it back to three.
And when Dorian Finney-Smith missed, the Nets were running out of chances.
Grading the Giants‘ 20-17 overtime loss to the Panthers in Germany on Sunday.
Giannis Antetokounmpo appeared fed up.
GLENDALE, Ariz. — Aaron Rodgers will be greeted with sunshine and temperatures in the upper 70s on Sunday, ideal conditions for him to sling the football around at State Farm Stadium to Garrett Wilson and Davante Adams when the Jets attempt their desperate run to end their ghastly 13-year playoff drought.
Tom Thibodeau in recent years has slowly eased young players such as Miles McBride and since-traded Quentin Grimes into the Knicks rotation.
A Monster is coming to Major League Baseball, and the Yankees and Mets — and truly all 28 other teams — will be interested.
MUNICH — So many of them fail.
A loss straight from the Lane Lambert playbook and a game the Islanders could ill-afford to give away right as they were getting things back on track.
The Mets failed Carlos Correa on a physical less than two years ago. Correa was a prominent member of the 2017 Astros, the team most repugnant to the Yankees and their fans.
CLEVELAND — The Nets played a back-to-back at the NBA’s reigning champions and league’s only unbeaten. They led both late, before falling agonizingly short.
MUNICH — There are always different and unexpected questions when an NFL team arrives in a foreign country to play a game far, far away from home. There were members of the media from all over Europe this past Friday, all with different accents, interests, agendas and levels of expertise on pass rushes and crossing routes.