Surging Nets block out tanking noise, beat 76ers to move closer to play-in spot
NY Post
It’s not even the All-Star break yet, and the Nets have already won more games than they were predicted to all season.
Get used to it, they say.
This supposedly tanking team is enjoying winning, eyeing the play-in, not the lottery.
The Nets beat the 76ers, 100-96, before 16,133 at Barclays Center, their sixth victory in their last seven games.
And they don’t give a damn how much it vexes the pro-tanking crowd.
“We don’t care. We do not care what they say about that,” Cam Johnson said. “The 15, 18 guys on his team have a job to do, and our job is to not try to get a draft pick. Our job is simply to win basketball games, the basketball games that are in front of us, and that’s what we’re going to put our full effort towards. We don’t care about all that other noise.
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