Nets roll past Suns, Kevin Durant behind two-way player’s 30 points in Cam Thomas’ absence
NY Post
PHOENIX — The Nets lost their leading scorer, but they didn’t lose their grit. Or the game.
Hours after finding out they would be without injured Cam Thomas for at least three weeks, Brooklyn ground out a 127-117 win at Phoenix and old pal Kevin Durant.
One player’s injury is another’s opportunity. And in the Nets’ next-man-up mantra, Tyrese Martin stepped up and showed out.
The young guard poured in a career-high 30 points off the bench to help the Nets (9-10) to their third straight win.
Then they poured celebratory water all over him in a victorious locker room.
“S–t, I felt like I was drowning in the ocean. Everybody’s throwing water, it’s cold. A lot of love, though. A lot of love. It felt good,” Martin said.
Some of the postgame noise coming from Giants players inside the losing locker room after their 30-7 loss to the Buccaneers on Sunday had to make head coach Brian Daboll cringe, especially with speculation about his job security swirling.
For Charles Barkley, learning the new fate of “Inside the NBA” was as if he was a player who found out he had been traded when it was reported in the media.
DENVER — OG Anunoby had scored as many or more points 13 previous times in his NBA career, but his silver-lining 27 in Saturday’s loss to the Jazz represented his most in 39 regular-season games with the Knicks.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — When Jordi Fernandez went back to Sacramento to face the Kings on Sunday night, Mike Brown joked he wanted to kick his protégé’s ass and then give him a hug. But it was Fernandez that got to give the victorious postgame embrace.
As the Giants season falls further into despair, Saquon Barkley continues his career season with his new team.
The Rangers had already been back home for a relatively full night’s sleep when Brett Berard was announced as a healthy scratch ahead of the AHL Wolf Pack’s 4 p.m. Sunday game against the Bridgeport Islanders in Hartford, Conn.
The Juan Soto Sweepstakes aren’t expected to last too long into the offseason, with offers from teams expected to begin trickling in soon and the Yankees and Mets still among the favorites to land the star.
The National Football League has been cracking down on celebrations that may look like guns – but Patrick Mahomes apparently missed the memo.
SALT LAKE CITY — Mikal Bridges understood why he did not return to Saturday’s game.
SALT LAKE CITY — The Knicks could not fully salvage a two-way clunker Saturday night, and their longest winning streak of the season is history.